Sunday morning

[ksmith]

August already. Yeesh. The only good thing about it is that I'm only a couple of weeks away from tomatoes. I thought I had 4 Romas that were close, all red or reddening, but upon closer inspection I saw that they had all been pecked/burrowed into, and were rotted inside. I also found a greenie Black Crim that was infected in the same way, and got rid of that one as well.

I've also been keeping an eye out for blight. One of the Romas showed a few of the telltale yellowed, blotchy leaves last week. Got rid of those, and sprayed the lower branches of all the tomatoes with organic fungicide. So far, so good.

The basil still looks great. The peppers look nice and leafy, but are only starting to bud now. No clue if the soil is wrong--too rich, too watered--or if the shade of the tomatoes is slowing things down.

Pups have been fed. Coffee imbibed. I need to make a quick run to the grocery store. Then, down to work.

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[e-moon60.livejournal.com]

My problem with summer (besides that it's Too Darn Hot down here) is that it's not as long as it used to be, in terms of when the school zone lights are flashing.

When I was a kid, we had three full months. Oh, sometimes they yanked us back for a couple of days before Labor Day weekend, but no more than that. July had no "back-to-school" sales, or concerns, or registration: July was dead center of summer, and you weren't bored with summer yet...it stretched out ahead through August, when you WERE bored with summer (at least, where I lived, because August was typically hotter than July, unless we had a hurricane, and you were beginning to think that being back with friends at school might be tolerable.)

Now July isn't really July...it's back-to-school with a vengeance: registration, sales, school supplies, the whole thing, starting up within a week of the 4th.

As for tomatoes: you're getting your first, maybe, and we picked the last tiny, sun-shrunken ones last week.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Tomato-wise, I'm a little concerned about possible blight. The Rutgers had some yellow leaves on the bottom--I plucked those today, and sprayed with organic fungicide. Keeping an eye on the other plants as well. I'm seeing a suspicious-looking leaf here and there, but so far, fingers crossed, I should be able to get at least a few tomatoes before the roof caves in. One of the Romas is reddening, along with one that's either a Black Crim or a Cherokee Purple.

The other things that show up in July are the fall catalogs. In a few weeks, I will expect to see the first of the holiday catalogs.