My massive determinate Mtn Princess Tomato Plant with about 100 flowers has lost about half of them. Still no fruit. Do I retire it already and reclaim the bucket? I'd plant some Burpee picklebush cukes instead. On other tomato front, my massive tomato plants are becoming more massive. My Wonder Light is the current talk of the neighborhood. Now ( Read more... )

I hate slugs. Slugs must not like me either for they're decimating the buttercrunch head lettuce in my beds. The lettuce in containers are doing very well. I may just stick with containers for salads from now on. In the meantime, I pull out between 6-12 slugs a day out from the beds. They're all baby slugs, except for the one adolescent I pulled ( Read more... )