The Jungle Update

Before leaving for another week of camping in the Black Hills, 

I visited the garden Monday afternoon, to water and harvest. 

The tomato plants are out of control!

(Photo from 8/5, so it was only worse a week later!)

I had decided not to prune the plants

(after a discussion with someone).

I should NOT have listened and just cut those things off

several weeks ago.

The tomato plants just keep growing, blossoming and

creating new itty bitty tomatoes. The part that is wrong with

all that is the tomatoes that are ripening are also

 itty bitty, not a size I am expecting of my 

Roma tomatoes.

You will see & understand...

I knew the cucumbers had gotten out of hand,

but we ate some every day from the ones I had picked

earlier last week. 

That is a paper towel tube to show the size of the renegade

monsters. I tossed a few; gave a few to the book club gals

and still had a dozen to pack for our week of camping.

I was surprised the lemon tomatoes had ripened in a week.

See those small Romas? I'll be peeling tomatoes for ever

for the salsa I hope to make! 

The tomatoes plants HAD to be pruned.

15 minutes and half a gabage container later...

you can actually see the cucumber trellis in the center of the garden!

OH, and those three different looking pepper plants that came

with the red sweet peppers??? The three plants that are loaded

with small, green, collapsed peppers????

I picked one and broke it open, put it to my lips 

with the intention of tasting it...

Let's just say I won't have to buy any jalapeno peppers

for the salsa. My lips were still burning an hour later!

Thanks Diane for once again, coming to my garden rescue,

to water and harvest!