[1_Inch_Group]

Curious...if you have any pics of the top of the plant. See the pruning you did at the bottom. Looks a lot like something you’d do for another plant I’m familiar with.

So...the tops nice and bushy?

[tubebender]

I posred these for another gardener and now I’m having problems with my Flikr account and can’t get the HTML come up correctly...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The pix posted by tubebender are from our garden at Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. The lower leaves on these determinate tomatoes withered and turned brown so we clipped and removed them. The tops are plenty leafy. Our indeterminate paste tomatoes didn't get whatever this was so no clipping was needed.

The bottom leaves apparently caught some kind of mold, I think, from being planted too close together in very warm weather. Anyway, the plants are flourishing with some extra air space and watered by drip irrigation from our sprinkler system. We're keeping green with water from the lake.

The local garlic lady will have some hard neck to sell at this morning's farmer's market. She got a 1st place award last year at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia.
I've mailed her hard neck garlic all over the US and even to a pen pal in Yokohama who loves the stuff.