Green Thumb Up My Nose

Garden Report for 130902

The weather this week was very warm (upper 80’s) and dry. Typical for late August. Now we are at the beginning of September, and we start our race between late ripening tomatoes and early killing frost.

Harvested a handful of tomatoes, mostly Early Girls, but a couple of the yellow Husky Golds. Still running about 2oz each. Some of them seem a little watery, so I’m cutting back on my watering schedule. I’ll do the KHG plants once a week. The container plants will still get watered daily, but at half the amount. If they droop in the afternoon, I’ll give them the other half of their ration.

I also harvested a couple of cucumbers, the two shown in this photo taken from the top of a step ladder:

Maybe he won’t find us if we hide back here

I sliced up the small one for miso-cucumber salad.

Meanwhile, the hot pepper spray seems to be keeping the squirrels off the corn. We’ll see what it does to the taste.

Week Ending	Vegetable	Count	Weight oz	Unit Weight oz	Total	Total Weight oz
8/26
	Tomato	13	26	2.0	17	34
	Summer	2	8	4	3	12.5
	8-Ball	1	40	40	2	72
	Crown	1	32	32	1	32
	Cuke	1	6	6	1	6
9/2
	Tomato	10	20	2	27	54
	Summer	0	0	0	3	12.5
	8-Ball	0	0	0	2	72
	Crown	0	0	0	1	32
	Cuke	2	20	10	3	26

Tags: corn, cucumber, garden, keyhole garden, squirrels, tomatoes