Just went to check on my squash and found that the bugs had eaten it all up! It’s too ugly to take a picture of even! Gah! Well, at least I got squash this summer. I will pull it up and see about planting something there for fall. I wanted to start a fall garden I guess I have room now!
The tomatoes seem to have gotten a second wind. They have grown so much and put on so many fruit that the baskets can’t hold them up! They are falling over into the yard. As long as they produce though I’m leaving them alone! The tomato worms got all the tomatoes at the property so these are the only tomatoes I’ll have this fall. They make good canning.
Speaking of our garden at the property – it’s done. We need to get irrigation to it next year and hopefully Bill will be up there more often to take care of it. I think the heat and dryness (and the deer) took a lot out of it. I did manage to sauce all the roma tomatoes that came on and got about 6 pints of sauce so I’ll count that as a win. Bill also found an eggplant last weekend that was about the size of a lime and well past usability. We must have missed it when we were thinking that the eggplant died during the heat. Next year we will plant them further from the tomatoes so we can see them better and they don’t get grown over like they did this year. Live and learn.
I guess we have to be thankful for what we did get out of our gardens and hopeful for what we might get next time! I'm using DE (diatomaceous earth)on my plants this time around in an effort to destroy those horrid worms. I'll keep you posted on how it works.
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