About a week of rain. It is raining right now, but should be good for the garden. Managed a short walk to inspect the garden last night, but that’s about all I could manage. This morning am feeling better, but food still doesn’t hold much appeal at the moment.
The two garden mysteries I’m experiencing have to do with tomatoes.
1. A Mexican Beefsteak tomato has curled up leaves. Thought deficiency, but deep green leaves, no discoloration. Maybe too wet- but, no rain for awhile and I didn’t water them. Maybe too dry- so I did put water on them a couple of days ago and it rained yesterday afternoon for a bit, but no change in leaves, they are still curled. Maybe herbicide drift - have corn across street, but they sprayed about a month ago and new growth since then, which is curled. And finally, I have 2 other MB tomatoes planted in another bed close by, they are not curled. This tomato plant does have tomatoes on it.
2. An Amish Rose Tomato. An heirloom type, and I only have 1. It looks healthy and is producing flowers. But, the flowers fall off, no fruits! It is in a bed with other tomatoes, all have fruit but this one. Thought maybe too dry - it is near corner of raised bed, so does dry out quicker. But I’ve watered the corner sometimes to help alleviate this, and other nearest tomato also near edge/other corner is producing tomatoes just fine. All tomatoes were planted with fertilizer pellets specifically for tomatoes. It may be time to replenish the pellets, will need to read the bag, but this plant had benefit of proper nutrients to begin with.
