Gardening News

This has got to be the best year ever. Thanks to a cooler April, the tomatoes have set like never before. The Salad Romas are beginning to ripen, and there are so many of them! For the first time there are really clusters of tomatoes. The Goliath has one giant cluster that bunched up together. Its first tomato actually got squeezed off early because of that (or maybe because I had not watered it for two days), and is ripening on the kitchen sill window. The bush beans have begun to produce, and the pole beans have grown ten feet tall and just began to flower with deep pink flowers. The eggplants are coming along well, too. Important note: Plants, like those of the Solanaceae family, that will fit in small pots much prefer really big pots to grow unrestrained, especially indeterminate tomatoes. Eggplants love big pots, but the small-fruited variety will do well in smaller pots. Pictures will come soon.