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Rescuing My Tomato Plants

thomas — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:37:33 +0000

When I find these new shoots on my tomato plants I normally pinch them off to force the plant to focus its energy on the developing fruits instead of foliage, but now that all of my plants are affected by blight I suddenly find myself welcoming these new shoots as they provide much needed foliage since the old has been damaged or wilted away:

Luckily it seems that the leaves affected with blight just dries up and breaks off and don’t cause damage to the main stem of the tomato plant:

I removed the affected foliage and tomatoes and the plants are beginning to look healthy again:

Time will tell if they’ll survive long enough to produce mature tomatoes. As you can see in the picture above there are not many leaves left to do the work.

… which is exactly the problem with my broccoli and cauliflowers too – them caterpillars hungry!:

What I should have done was to grow these plants in a tunnel so that the mother of these caterpillars couldn’t have laid her eggs on the plants when they were small.

Oh well – I’m actually proud that the plants grew this big. Besides the damage done by caterpillars the plants look really healthy. Next year I’ll build a tunnel. And oh – we actually did harvest one broccoli, a real nice one too.

The 2010 Harvest

thomas — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:37:14 +0000

This is the log describing the food I’m bringing in from my garden grown in 2010. I did a post called My Garden Layout in 2010 if you want more details about the garden.

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Cucumber:

2010-07-31: 1 pcs. (266 g)

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Strawberry:

2010-07-31: 42 g
2010-07-30: 88 g
2010-07-29: 287 g
2010-07-24: 44 g

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Peas:

2010-07-31: 42 g
2010-07-29: 530 g
2010-07-24: 720 g
2010-07-23: 400 g
2010-07-21: 311 g (63 pcs.)
2010-07-20: 95 g (22 pcs.)

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Red beet:

2010-07-24: 8 pcs., long, (1345 g)

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Squash:

2010-07-29: 2 pcs. (589 g)

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Radish:

2010-06-10: 10 pcs.
2010-06-09: 20 pcs.
2010-07-08: 15 pcs.

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Carrot:

2010-07-24: 3078 g
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Potatoes:

2010-08-01: 899 g
2010-07-28: 1112 g (2 plants)
2010-07-27: 876 g
2010-07-25: 676 g
2010-07-24: 1162 g

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To be continued…

Video: The Urban Homestead California Heartland

thomas — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:37:35 +0000

This guy always inspires me to take my food growing adventures to the next level;
Jules Dervaes.

2.7 tonnes (6,000 pounds) of organic produce a year
Home is on a 800 square meters (1/5 acre) piece of land
Garden is 400 square meters (1/10 acre)
Front yard is 95% edible
Energy consumption is only 6.5 kWh a day

When you do something worthwhile, and you’re on a mission, if you challenge yourself, the good works and good actions will come out and be evident, and then the change will happen all over.

– Jules Dervaes