Good afternoon all. I did some picking in the garden this morning. I picked up the rest of the butternut squash. There are 8 total. Small but well shaped. After two years of absolutely no squash, this makes me happy. I picked more cherry tomatoes and a few SM tomatoes. I got 2 from the nightshade garden and they were bigger and more robust looking than the ones in the big garden. I also picked 2 jalapeños and some more lima beans. I have a brandywine that is finally starting to ripen. Out of three plants I only have 6 tomatoes. I won’t be growing them again. Very disappointing and a waste of garden space. This has been a rough gardening year with all the rain, so I’m happy I’m getting something of a harvest. Still waiting for more corn to develop. There are still plenty of ears on the stalks, I’m hoping dry sunny weather will help. Still no sign of summer squash developing. There’s no shortage of pollinators just a shortage of the female flowers. Today’s haul.
Well, I have a hard imagining that the minimal smell of plastic would damage the seeds. My seeds will be in paper bags or other plastic bottles inside the plastic ammo box. It's not like I am putting our leftover soup in the ammo box. Although I usually opt for reducing the one-use waste plastic in my life, I am still a big fan of plastic storage totes, plastic bottles, plastic 5-gallon buckets and other stuff.
