At the suggestion of a friend, I decided to migrate my cherry tomato vines to the shade of the backyard. They'd stopped setting fruit because of the heat, and I was complaining about how much we miss our front porch cherry tomato pickings. My friend said that if I could keep the vines alive through the summer, they'd bear fruit again in the fall. As hard as I worked to grow the things from seed in the first place, I would love to milk them for all their worth! After evaluating my vines, two of the four seemed too diseased to bother with, and the remaining hanging bag tomato was happy and shady enough. I decided to re-pot the only other candidate.
Lo and behold, she might set fruit in a few weeks! Right now the pot is getting only a few hours of morning sun, but the vine is a beautiful, happy green with new growth!
I've also been thrilled too see one of my sweet pepper plants battling back. I'm sure I'm showing my rookie stripes, but I was under the impression that my harvest there was done. I pulled up all the garlic I was growing around the perimeter of my pepper boxes weeks ago, and pretty well quit watering the poor little plants! When my husband told me there were a handful of new pepper blossoms on the porch, I didn't believe him. Shows how much I know.
