I fertilized everything again last Friday since it was ~ two weeks since the last treatment. Harvested more zucchini (a.k.a courgette) which is producing a nice little crop, I'm always amazed at how quickly they grow, easily several inches in a couple of days. The cucumbers are still struggling a bit, maybe still trying to recover from insufficient water in early July but there are several blooms so I'm not giving up yet.
I started with 4 roma tomatoes plants and lost one early on due to not staking it. Now 1 of the remaining 3 has blossom end rot as you can see from the slightly blurry photo below.
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| See the dark bottom on the tomato |
I'm quite sure this happened when we were away for 11 days and the plant got too dry. I've had it happen before to tomatoes planted in the ground. In any event, it will mean I need to cut off the very bottom of those tomatoes before using them. The romas are earmarked for tomato chutney so it's not a major crisis.
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Romas ladden with fruit, the right one has
bottom blight |
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| Third roma with ripening fruit |
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| Shy pink lady hiding in the foliage |
Otherwise, things are coming along well, the pink lady which was planted the latest has lots of fruit on it and has one beautiful reddish pink tomato that I will pick in the next few days. I've never tried this variety before so am quite keen to see how they taste.
All of the early girls are doing fine, good foliage, lots of fruit coming albeit at the moment I would say that the topsy turvy and traditional garden ones have the most foliage but the rooftop ones seem to have the most fruit (at the moment). Given that only the early girls are in all three places, I will try to track yield on each plant when they start ripening.
