This is the sun setting in thick smoke. Mega fires are raging in all the northwest states. Our smoke is from the closest fire that is now at 62,000 acres. Visibility has been really low, and air quality has been at dangerous health levels. I haven't been able to see the farm fields below us for days.
This is a very late planted yellow squash. I thought maybe a late planting might avoid getting powdery mildew. Sure do hope so!
The tomatoes are huge - way too tall. While they are the Juliet variety that does tend to get lanky, I think Tramp 1 did too good a job of fertilizing when planting them. He added alfalfa meal, bone meal and a cold climate organic fertilizer, plus ground up egg shells.
The potatoes are doing well and are large enough now to require some extra water. I am giving several plants extra water in the mornings even though they are all on a drip irrigation system. It has been hot and really dry, so with their adult root systems, they benefit with some extra moisture.
The upside down tomatoes are progressing well. This year we planted all Early Girl. They don't seem to grow as well in this manner versus planning them in the ground. It could be the extreme weather we have had, too. I usually plant the Stupice variety in the upside down pots.
This is a pepper of unknown origin that decided to volunteer in the top of one of the upside down tomatoes. Hope it has time to grow enough to show us what variety it is!!
We have grapes this year. Usually the Scrub Jays get them before we do. But this year they are down in the orchard garden working on the fruit trees.... We don't remember what kind of grapes we planted - we have the name somewhere - but at least they are doing well. They do have a massive white fly problem and I am going to nail them with some homemade soap spray, hoping that it will help knock some of them out. We have never had white flies so we didn't realize what was happening soon enough to stop it.
2 comments:
It's a jungle out there! Those tomato plants are HUGE! Be careful, or they'll take over the world.
Sorry about your smoke problems. That's gotta be scary!
I can see what it was before the deer invasion. My tomatoes didn't like the week of rain we just had. Lots of splitting, but I have so many I was too lazy to go out and get them covered. - Margy
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