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I didn’t realize it has been since the middle of June since I posted a blog update. I’ve been busy. Who hasn’t? But most importantly (at least as far as the blog is concerned) where are we in gardening?

Well after weeks of agonizing because I wasn’t seeing any bees I discovered little green tomatoes on my tomato plants.

Now about that. We know that the tomato flowers need to be pollinated for tomatoes to appear and we rely on bees to pollinate them. Apparently the pollination of tomato flowers is so easy that a good breeze can accomplish it. There are also the toothbrush and paintbrush methods which I was headed towards but I did not realize that the heavy winds we get at times could be taking care of this for me. I also did eventually see some nice big bees. I guess they visited when I wasn’t looking. By the way I learned all of this couresty of my master gardener friend.

Also our corn is incredibly tall. I’ve got to read a little bit more about what to expect there but they do drink a TON of water. In this heavy duty self-watering container I need to water daily.

The strawberries seem spent. It probably didn’t help that my daughter plucked all the green ones off in the effor to ‘help’. Bless her heart I couldn’t stop laughing.

The lettuce is still hanging in there. I harvested a bunch of leaves last week for salads and really need to go sow more seeds.

The onions have all been pulled. I need to work on them. I do have one going to seed so he is left out there so I can harvest the seeds.

The potatoes are growing away. The green stuff seems to be dying back a bit so I expect to harvest them before long.

The carrots??? A joke on my porch.

I have one rogue cucumber plant. He looks so unhealthy but he’s growing really well. His leaves have spots etc.

Oh I got the garlic bug repellent juice. I spray all the time.

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