(Top: Buttercrunch; bottom: Romaine - these photos were taken on Thursday. They're bigger now)
That's how much rain we've had in our latest dump since Friday, 3 more inches. Gotta tell you though, the weeds are loving it entirely too much. I'd just finished weeding before the rain and Presto! more weeds had appeared when I went out to empty my rain gauge yesterday evening.
The potatoes are also loving the rain - in fact, they've grown so much in the past few days, I think I'm going to have to hoe them again, and I only did that a week ago! Not that I'm complaining, the growth is awesome, especially if I don't have to use our temperamental well to do the watering . . . but the old arthritis in my fingers makes hoeing a bit more of a chore than it used to be.
The two plants which do not seem to like this rain at all, are the tomatoes and the cucumbers in the garden. They are not at all happy. Especially when one compares them to the ones in the greenhouse. The plants in the greenhouse are growing like weeds (but in a good way, haha) and I have to rearrange my greenhouse because in the past couple of days, my broccoli have grown too big for the spot I had them in. Ooops.
(First photo is of the Sub-Arctics in the greenhouse; second is the Sub-Arctics in the garden. Quite a difference!)
I'm beginning to think I might need that second greenhouse after-all!! Yet last year, I only managed to successfully grow 2 cucumber plants, everything else died. This year however, I have 5 healthy, growing cucumber plants in the greenhouse, 6 healthy tomato plants, 6 healthy broccoli and 3 healthy pepper plants. Although, I must admit, I'm having a wee issue with my Balls Beefsteak tomatoes - the plant is healthy and is growing well, but, the tomatoes themselves have a weird green part on the top around the stem. It just appeared the day after the last time I fertilized, so I'm not sure what's up with that. The other tomatoes are fine. Perhaps, I'm just not meant to grow beefsteak tomatoes??
(If you look closely, you can see the green part on the top of the tomato - this was taken on Thursday, since then, the biggest one has started to ripen and the green part is even more noticeable.)
It's bizarre, what's going on with the tomatoes, because they're all in the same dirt. They're all on the same side of the greenhouse. They all get watered and fertilized at the same time. And only the Beefsteak have this problem - perhaps another gardener out there, who is reading this, could tell me if Beefsteaks are prone to this type of thing? And are the fruit still edible? Beefsteaks are huge, so I would be wasting a lot of tomato if I had to compost them!!
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