The vegetable garden has been a delight this year! We have had verticillium wilt attack out tomatoes for the last ten years, each year killing more bushes. What stinks about the wilt is that your bush will be just beautiful and beginning to bear , then
uh-oh, what's going on here. The plant begins to wilt and no amount of water will rescue it. Planting tomatoes tagged as disease resistant hasn't helped, (guess what, tomatoes can't read). A few bushes would always make it and provide us enough for our purposes, but I just love having enough to share. This year we went to raised beds, filled with good compost. The beds weren't ready in time for the tomatoes, so they went in boxes with the same compost. Not just our tomatoes, but all all veggies look so much healthier than they ever did when we planted in-ground.
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| Tomatoes are outside the garden... |
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| Trying to get into the garden. |
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| Lots of tomatoes left, for Florida, in June. |
Enter the garden last month...
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Very prim and proper.
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The garden today...
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In the forefront is cowhorn okra, which can get 8-10 inches long, and still be perfectly tender. I save this seed every year, not only because it's so good, but because it was given to me by my precious mother-in-law. She taught me how to put in a garden, among many other things. She's gone, but her okra lives on. I know that she would be proud that I have continued in her gardening ways.
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| I suppose it looks like a cow horn. |
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| Sweet potatoes, lots of beans, cucumbers and cantaloupe. I hope your gardens, whether veggies or flowers, are bringing you joy. |
