The tomatoes have exploded. There is no other word for it. Now drinking a gallon of water a day, they create a cupful of suckers every day that need to be snipped or plucked off to put plant energy into food production and not leaves. Next time it'll be just one plant in a 14-gallon tote. Or I'll just go with more cucumbers, which have been producing roughly 4 cucumbers every two weeks. At that rate, four cucumber plants would suffice (extra for redundancy) to supply cucumbers for the spring, making me for the first time truly self-sufficient in one product at least.
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| It's a jungle out there |
The cucumbers are growing nicely up the twine trellis. The fruit in the lower right, a bit dark, doubles every day. I'll probably harvest it in a week.
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| Growin' to the sky |
Maybe there should be a small cage around the edges so that toads and lizards can be put in to live in and among the plants. How about a fountain, eh? A pond? I'm already planning to suspend vinyl fence posts from the railing to expand the growing space, in an ebb-and-flow system. We'll see how that goes. There definitely will be another system to grow Ichiban eggplants soon too. If they take up too much space the mint's going to have to be suspended from the railing as well. Future plans include terracing pots or a stepped hydroponic system down the stairs, cuz I need more space (!). Onward.
