tomato

On Monday, I discovered that our mystery tomato plant (which clearly seems to be a plum tomato of some sort) had tomatoes that had blossom end rot.  In my container garden, this is usually solved by an application of lime.  It seem like for tomatoes in the ground this is caused by a lack of calcium uptake by the plant caused by uneven watering.  We need to pay more attention to watering the tomatoes.  Odd, however, that this seems to be occurring on only 1 of our tomato plants.

 

Today we spotted our first tomato hornworms munching on our tomato plants.  These bugs are incredibly destructive- look at the size of this one- Elisabeth’s hand is behind it for comparison!

 

This one had been colonized by the eggs of a parasitic wasp:

This is what they will do- strip all the leaves off of a tomato plant.

 

Google’s done some new satellite photos. The water line is in and it looks like the tomatoes were just planted. I’m guessing Memorial Day or thereabouts.

… nights, when we were not around.

Snaps of the kids to follow.

The tomatoes are coming along very nicely, in control of a sizable swatch of garden land in the back left (thanks to Michael for giving a reference point for how high some of the plants are getting). Big clumps of fruit, some ripening and some not yet, are everywhere, and a grape variety is barely going to be able to stay upright, if each from its forest of blossoms becomes a fruit.