It’s been pouring this morning and I’ve noticed that some of the tomatoes are leaning and needed support. As I mentioned in my last tomato post, I planed to use an old t-shirt to tie them.
I like using them coz they’re chunky and soft, they won’t cut into the stem. Their stretchy nature will let the plant grow freely. Also, they’re free and can be used more than once.
11-Jul-2023
Everyone told me to abuse that tomato plant last year that just grew up??? By itself???? Out of rocks??? In my backyard??? That tomatoes LOVE being called shitty plants and deprived of love and care, they are masochists that thrive when told their mother doesn't like them.
And so, I did nothing when winter came. I did not snip, I did not prep, I did not cover, and the brutal lake effect winter soon crushed it into the ground. Browned, burned by frost, and - I assumed - dead. Unfortunate.
I WAS WRONG, THIS FUCKER IS BACK, WHAT THE FUCK, GREEN LEAVES AND VINES ARE GROWING OUT OF THE DEAD VINES, THIS PLANT TAKES MORE SUFFERING THAN MATT FUCKING MURDOCK, HOW IS IT ALIVE, I HAVE DONE NOTHING TO THIS PLANT AND IT JUST DOES THIS???
Our backyard garden is a mix of warm & cool season plantings:
That green mass is one tomato plant, a bell pepper plant, a habanero plant & two eggplants. Plant spacing rules are like the pirate's code... they're more guidelines than actual rules:
Seen on another walk:
In our experience, beautiful rose blossoms occur when you step back & let nature do its shit:
This week my dad would have turned 86 years old if he hadn't been killed in 2020. This post is dedicated to his memory. My heartfelt wish is he found the peace & contentment in the next life that he deserved in this one:
Some of my Cucumber, Morning Glory, and Marigold containers:
My tomatoes were planted the same day as everything else, but none have even broke the surface yet. I really want to grow some of those zebra and black krims. Fingers crossed they are just slow to germinate.
Here are my Jalapeno, Serrano Chili, and Mixed Pepper plants (all planted the same day as everything else pictured):
Eggplant and Hollyhock plants:
I started getting my outdoor space cleaned up from a rough winter. It was incredibly windy in Wyoming this year. It's destroyed my greenhouse and most of the progress I made last year, but I got a nice head start on the cleanup on this set of days off.
I'm pretty proud of myself for being so far ahead on the indoor gardening season.
If you were wanting an update about that plant in my new backyard that I thought was a weed but was in actuality some random huge fucking TOMATO PLANT, it has been less than a month since I discovered it was a tomato bush and now it is large enough to devour a grown ass adult.
It has gone through 2 frosts. It swore at God, and continued to grow.
I have not watered it. It curled a vine into the shape of a middle finger, and continued to grow.
It is growing out of fucking ROCKS.
There is no stopping it. There are hundreds of green tomatoes on it. It is set on devouring the backyard. It will be here after I die. It will be here after you die. It will be here after we all die. It will be here after the earth dies, waiting for a new planet to form, and it will be there until the cold death of the universe freezes it into place.