So this weekend I have decided to tend to my tomato plants inside of the large tunnel. Rather than leaving them with limited support cages, I installed strings for supporting growth of the plants upwards. Got a hint from my sister who is rather accomplished gardener in Europe. In fact I visited her last week and was amazed at her garden, but she has it easy given the elevation of +- 250m above see level. She is about month ahead of my garden, as her tomatoes outside have already fruit the size of small apples.
Anyway, we did remove some "suckers" and bottom branches on plans that have flowers and hopefully this will spur faster growth and fruit development.
Yard is in terrible shape due to lack of moisture. We had rainfall Saturday night and in all only got 2.09 mm according to my weather station gauges. That is nothing. It was also exceptionally windy whole weekend and that result is further loss of moisture. Grass look terrible and desperately waiting for any type of rain, forecast call for 60% chance tomorrow, hope this will materialize. All we can do is hope now. This year el Nino deprived our location of rain and usually, June is the wettest month here.
Will keep my fingers crossed for rain.
My Already distressed plum trees were infested with aphids, so had to spray them with insecticide soap hoping that this will remove that infestation. Will have to repeat this treatment few time over next few day to ensure success. They do not look well, these trees partially due to lack of moisture, as they are unfortunately outside of sprinkler reach so I need to start manually watering them.
So it was busy weekend in the garden but also, due to father's day, busy doing things with my kids, including them working on garden chores.
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