Traveling and gardening don't mix very well
- jimonthewayhome
- Aug 21, 2020
- 2 min read

This is what I found when we got home. Plus 100 or so ears of corn past their prime. The large tomato on the left is the only one from that plant that was all in one piece. The bag on the left is rotten tomatoes from the other three plants.
The last planting of sweet corn is ready now. What there is is good. But the worms got in to a lot of ears and even more never filled out. Seeing it's the same seed as the two plantings next to it which did fine. I'm guessing it got too dry when we were gone and stopped growing.
There are likely another half dozen egg plant on the vine.
I haven't picked any of the bell peppers yet. The plant that is supposed to be black and only has two peppers on it, one is almost black. The orange bells' are all still green and there may be a dozen of them. The yellow bell ... it is somewhere under the tomato and egg plant and I couldn't even see any leaves tonight when I was looking.
The large tomato ... I hadn't planned on buying any of the large ones because I have never had any luck with them. Not sure how I ended up with it, realized when I planted it what I had but wasn't going to try to bring it back. On that plant there is a 'wad' about the size of a soccer ball of red rotten tomatoes in one spot. Not sure how I will get them out of there without cutting the plant down.
Water melon, the first one is no longer the biggest one. One of them is almost two feet (without measuring it)
I think I got all the zucchini so now it should start putting out flowers again and may have some more when we are back in two weeks. The acorn squash is still growing, all the squash are still green.
Black berries. Vines everywhere 'thick as thieves.' :) Some of the vines are now 15 feet long into the rest of the garden.
The raspberries are still putting out a few. I didn't have any because my hands were full of 'rotten tomatoes.'
One plant of celery is still growing good. Two have the wilted look and the fourth is pretty much dead.
Onions have all pretty much stopped growing, didn't look at the beans.




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