Check out these pictures of my poor tomatoes! I have put in a lot of hard work on three tomato plants this summer. I lost two of my three plants to little parasites and these pictures show my third and last surviving tomato plant with a type of rot. I couldn't figure out what was causing it, until I started studying into it. Aparently, my tomatoes are growing in like this because they experienced periods of dryness (Like when I kept going out of town for 5 days at a time every other week for Michael's foot surgery and then vacations) Anyway, I have over 19 tomatoes growing from this bush and almost all of them are growing with this brown spot on the bottom that continues to look worse and worse as it grows larger. I think I'll try and grow cherry tomatoes next summer....
"At least my roses are doing okay," I thought as I was inspecting them. Then, I discovered millions of little worm-like caterpillars all over mu beautiful roses, munching away at the leaves! Just the other day I was marvelling at how wonderful plants and flowers are. I will sit outside at night and look at them and when I wake up in the mourning, just in a few hours, I discover a new development. It's like flowers just bloom out of nowhere. But this seemingly overnight develoment is less than welcome! I had to cut off a bunch of little leaves and branches to save the plant from it's worms....
My lemon trees really are doing well... Approaching them, I take a huge wiff of the air around them and am always delighted by their fragrance...
This is my beloved Garden Gnome and his friend, the snail. Both of them still need names. But I adore them both.
Here, my strawberry plants are coming back. I thought they were going to die after they produced only a couple berries and then seemed to wither a little. But they are actually working on about 4 new blooms and are looking good!
And finally, just because I feel like it, I took a picture of my neighbors canopy of grape vines. They are producing grapes right now and they will be ready in the next couple of weeks...
My god! I am so incredibly jealous of your garden...
ReplyDeleteSorry about your tomatoes... They don't look like they'll be salvageable. Cherry tomatoes should be much easier to work with. I would suggest setting up a sump for your thirsty plants so they never really become dehydrated.
I just have my four basil plants (two of which I'm nursing back to good health since I've adopted them from Kat.) I have 3 very happy spider plants, and one little weed thing that looks completely insane and frequently sends cork-screw looking seeds flying off into the air... I should get a photograph of that plant, I've got no idea what it is... It sure as hell isn't what I planted.