Tomato(es) & garden progress

[Timmah!]

Plants are doing well, all things considered. Any comments & suggestions welcome.

[ubergoober]

lookin good! LOVE your accent btw!

[Timmah!]

You think I have an accent, you should hear some of the folks further out in the 'country' proper. =) Piques my curiosity of how you sound for comparison's sake. Perhaps you'll soon make a video of your garden with some narration.

[ubergoober]

lol There isn't a whole lot to show as of yet...in my dinky city garden but I will try.

[dustdevil]

The accent comes from eatin' greasy beans...I thought everybody knew that.

[Timmah!]

The raised bed of Brandywines as of today. Looks like a stinkbug or something took a bite of a few fruits, as there was some discolored tissue in some of the tomatoes I harvested. The top 4 inches of a few growing shoots were denuded; looked for the likely culrpit-hornworm-for about 15 minutes, didn't find it, or any more defoliation since. Went to the garden & found the guard cat sleeping on the job:

[ubergoober]

awww Your guard cat is very cute! lol

[Talon1189]

Looks great Timmah.......Does the cat keep the varmints away?

[FILMNET]

I see that you do not trim any large sideways shoots that take away food from the first fruit, i did this year and will now always do this, i got huge 1-2lb fruit near the bottom of my 9 plants . Of course theses were the first fruit 60 days ago, now smaller above. Instead of a ton of small fruit i prefer large ones first so i trim to 1 center trunk for 45 days , then let them go crazy, small fruit now till death!!!!
very bottom of Cowlick

Mariann's peace first fruit

[dustdevil]

Originally Posted by Talon1189

Looks great Timmah.......Does the cat keep the varmints away?

Tal, the cat is a contributor to his e.coli in the tomato garden research

Garden looks good Mr. T. I know you've worked very hard to overcome the soil challenge. Aren't you suppose to be digging post holes for next year?;-)

[Timmah!]

Originally Posted by Talon1189

Looks great Timmah.......Does the cat keep the varmints away?

Every now & then I have to dispatch a complacent bird any one of the three has ambushed from the periphery of the clearing. They usually like to wait under the trees near the weed line. It's usually a hapless, fat robin just looking for a worm in the clearing; I don't feel too bad about it as more often than not, it's the robins that like to perch on the conduit framing & take a dump all over the tomatoes' foliage. You know they're nosing around in the field that begins @ the top of my back yard when you hear the squirrels chattering up there.

There's deer that bed downa as close as 30 yards into that field, but they don't wander into the yard or garden.