Regular Cherry Tomatoes

It looks like my once flourishing cherry tomatoes have now lived their life. With the coming of the burgeoning heat and the limitations of their pots, I think they are rather overwhelmed and no longer have the strength to churn out pounds of fruit. They are all clearly dying. They still have been producing quite a bit, although the tomatoes aren't getting as ripe as they were before. The ones that I've been picking are still a little tart and yellow, no matter how long I wait for them to become more ripe.

I've learned a lot from my cherry tomatoes. Next time I grow them I should probably provide them with more support than just cages, and it wouldn't hurt to place them next to a wall. They grew much more than I expected them to, and because of this it became much more of a puzzle of how to get them to stay up and not fall over.

I had about 4 pounds in the refridgerator that I was planning to take to church, but I forgot to take them and after a few days I decided I would just throw them into the compost. I know it's a huge waste, but nobody wanted to eat them and I didn't think they would last another week. I also cut off a lot of my big tomatoes, some eggplants, small peppers, eggplants and zucchini in as well. My peppers have not been doing well and of course once again I tried spraying them with soapy water- but this killed half the leaves on them. I can never get the soapy water trick to work. They have been producing peppers, but either the sun is scorching them, or they have blossom end rot and I need to get them some fertilizer.

Anyway, sorry no pictures for this post... but yeah...I'm a little tired of tomatoes right now! hah.

New homes!

I've taken the huge plunge and potted my plants! Well...not all of them. My sunflowers are still growing and then I have my two small tomatoes. But I've planted the four tomato plants I bought, as well as my squash and zucchini. Sadly, I'm not really sure if my yellow squash will make it and I'm wondering now if I should start another seed in the same bucket or if I should try growing something else, or what. But when I tried to transplant the yellow squash its roots were rather nonexistant, plus it has always had very yellow leaves. To make matters worse, I covered it last night to protect it but was unable to take off the covering after sunrise, so the plant might have gotten too hot this morning. In result, a few of it's leaves have withered.

Barely alive!

Everyone else seems happy!

Anyway, it's okay because I'm a garden newbie and I'm expecting casualties. My lettuces haven't come up yet and I may have accidently displaced the seeds when I last watered them. Usually I use the mister setting on the hose nozzle to spray them gently without much disturbance, however our backyard hose has burst (it was too old to take the water pressure while using a hose nozzle) and I have to wait for our landlady to buy a new one. So I watered them with a bucket and that just threw dirt all around in the containers. But I can always plant more seeds and try again in a few days.

My working schedule has been a little wild and crazy these past few days so I haven't been able to give the garden my full undivided attention.

Still kickin'