Confirmed yesterday evening that there’s at least one more groundhog out there. Found a Purple Cherokee tomato that would have made three sammiches hanging on the vine half eaten.
I also picked eight very nice PCs, along with one Brandywine and half a dozen middling sized Better Boys.
The first tomato sammich of the summer is always so good.
The squall that rolled through here yesterday mostly flattened my sad little patch of sweet corn. It was planted late and only about waist high so it will probably stand back up and be ok.
Glad to hear the corm crop was saved!
I’m having Puppy Problems in my garden. They LOVE the bell peppers and I’ve found one half-ripe, chewed on tomato so far. But at a possible $1K a head once trained, I will not be shooting them. ;)
Their other ‘project’ is dismantling the still-boxed pellet grill that Beau bought but didn’t have time to assemble before he left for Bear Camp.
Hopefully they can have that all set up and ready to go upon his return. *SMIRK*
And don’t even get me started on the status of my landscaping around the house and the number of missing solar lights so far...
We quit growing Better Boys. Hubby is a tomato sammich guy. I got a couple of Costoluto Florentino plants this spring. Picked the first one a few days ago. Hubby declared it the best tomato for sandwiches ever. Got two sandwiches out of it, probably could have gotten three. Nice and firm inside lots of flesh, not seeds and water. Plus the bottoms are smooth and clean. Very impressed.