We had another small harvest today! Submitted for your reading pleasure, our lovely story about pulling weeds, re-caging tomatoes and tying up limp peppers after a storm, and trying to figure out how exactly composting is supposed to work.

Saturday evening we had a little rain; from what I can tell via the internet, about four inches in two hours. This compounded with rather high winds and heavy green tomatoes proved that gravity is a force to be reckoned with.
We had our work cut out for us Sunday–well, it wasn’t too bad actually. There were perhaps seven plants that had fallen down with their cages. The bell pepper plants were all laying down (cage-less), and we had to put some steaks in the ground and tie them up.
After that we went ahead and did some regular maintenaince: pulled weeds, put down mulch, moved vines around, etc…
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May isn’t even halfway over and we have had eight inches of rain by some accounts.  Starting to grow restless we built some tomato cages.  The cages are built out of metal fence.  The fence was traded to CFP for some future tomato’s.  They are about 18 inches across and four feet tall.  They have nice big squares where one can reach in and retrieve a tomato.  We made a total 22 tomato cages and if the rain ever lets up we might put them over the tomato’s we planted a week ago.
 

I have.  Pretty much nonstop for 3 days now.  It is not very assuring.  We probably won’t be planting on Saturday.  Instead we might have the wet-dry vac outside trying to salvage anything that hasn’t drowned.  This past Sunday we went to a couple of greenhouses to stock up on some more plant life.  We purchased what seemed like a few thousand tomato’s, jalapenos, bell peppers, some watermelon, zucchini, and summer squash.  Also for fun we invested in the long term crops of a concord grapevine, a blueberry and a raspberry plant.  Possibly for some wine, but probably not this year. (more…)