For each herb we have in the street garden in the front yard, we are also growing the same herb up on the roof for our own private stash. This is in case any neighbors get greedy and take the whole plant downstairs. So far, so good.
Ah, the mother of thyme smells incredible. Still no good smell-o-vision programs out there.
We also laid down a lot of rocks in the street garden to serve as borders. Maybe this will convince the neighbors to keep their dogs out of there.
Some bad news: our Early Girl tomato plants are showing signs of Blossom-End Rot. It ain't pretty. The part of the tomato opposite the stem gets discolored and starts to disintegrate. It's not an organism that causes this, it's environmental: either not enough water, too much water, too much or not enough fertilizer. Our first two tomatoes got it. They turned a beautiful shade of red, but that black crap on the bottom ain't pretty.
Some say you can cut off the bad part and eat the rest, but elsewhere I see that blossom-end rot can affect the whole fruit and you should not eat it. Typical. You can often find one website to say one thing, and another to contradict it.
Better safe than sorry, so we cut the bad fruits off and discarded them. Now we see the same thing happening to another couple of green tomatoes. Damnit. So far, no sign of this problem on the Big Boy tomato plants. Crossing our fingers. This also affects eggplants, and we finally have our first couple of eggplants forming.
Cut off a pretty large cucumber for dinner this evening, and we have several more coming. These are "salad bush" cucumbers from Burpee.
The new green beans (Bush Lake 47 and Bush Derby) are sprouting! As are the Health Kick Hybrid (tomatoes) and the Sugar Bon snap peas. I'm having a weird thing going on with my focus control on my digital camera where a lot of the shots are out-of-focus. Need to fix that before I post any of those.
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