Today's harvest includes 4 Black Cherry, 2 Matt's Wild Cherry, 2 SunGold, 2 SunSugar, Honkin' Big Black Cherry (new), Bloody Butcher and Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe for a total of 13 tomatoes.
Yesterday evening I staked several plants and corraled a few as best I could. German Orange Strawberry had gotten so large that it was tipping eastward. I took out a ladder and pounded an eight foot stake on the east side. This is the third stake used on the plant but the first one this tall and thick. Then I used gardening tape to pin it against the stake.
My wife pulled out Nyagous. This week's heat wave did not create any new growth. That area looks a lot better after the removal of this plant.
Many plants have tomatoes that are getting a darker shade of green in preparation of maturing in the near future. Several that are actually turning include one we harvested today, Honkin' Big Black Cherry. Green Grape is maturing. Lime Green Salad is maturing.
I misidentified Paul Robeson(2) as having maturing tomatoes. That plant turned out to be Pierce's Pride. Paul Robeson(2) is a big plant with some big, beautiful tomatoes -- but none are maturing.
The plants in the "Middle East" are doing spectacularly well. Before this year, I didn't have a plant grow taller than about 4 1/2 feet in this area. This year, every plant but one is taller than 5 feet. They're still growing and it's not even July yet.
My wife noted that the SunGold plant is growing and getting stronger due to the removal of the sweet peas. The sweet peas blocked the sun for this plant.
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