After my doctor appointment (take vitamins for the nerve issues, begin physical therapy), we left to head out the Korean Spa. I spent a few minutes in the garden checking on everything just before we left.
I brace myself every day, but there was no pest damage today. I left the tomatoes to vine ripen for another few hours. I may pick them tonight when we get home.
I put more fertilizer on the hay bales and then wetted then down. Phew — what a funk. They are definitely rotting. I picked up carrot seeds at Lowe’s yesterday. One is a rainbow mix and the other is an improved Nantes.
We also got sterile seed starting mix so I can start the blackberries and clematis.
One whole branch of the back forty Early Girl was still wilty today, so I cut the whole thing off. The rest of the plant looks good, so maybe it’s an insect issue.
Beans (bright green is Garden of Eden) and a few beautiful tomatoes
The beans are still looking good after the fertilizer treatment. The leaves are definitely greener and I only saw one leaf that was sick. I pulled some beans that were ready along with a beautiful Cherokee Purple that really should be in a magazine. It’s perfect. Like any proud parent, I took a ton of pictures because photographing a tomato from multiple angles and in multiple poses is a perfectly natural thing to do:
If that ant hadn’t photobombed me, I’m sure National Geographic would be calling by now
I have tomatoes that are starting to get overripe, so I took a page from NCTomatoMan and did my own #BringYourTomatoToLunch day. I stuffed two tomatoes in my purse along with a knife and took them with us as we left the house.
Brandywine and Honeydew Melon bread thing 
Cherokee Purple for the hubs. He had a hot dog thing because hot dogs + pastry = French-Korean? 
Grumpy daughter and me. I though the steak, er, tomato knife was out of the picture :-)
Okay, it was more like brunch. And Craig brought his tomatoes to Red Robin and put them on a burger, like a Normal Person. We used ours as a side dish to our pastries from the French-Korean bakery, Tous le Jour.
I assure you this is perfectly normal behavior for the average American.
For sure.
