New Seedling Sprouted; I'm Speaking Tonight

On Sunday I fixed the “moats” around all the tomatoes in the front yard. Also, I did a little bit of “training”.

My wife watered the front yard tomatoes on Monday. I took a day off from tomato activities.

My wife informed me that one of the seeds planted in the pot that formerly held Saint Pierre has sprouted. We don't know which tomato seed that is and won't know until it shows fruit three months later.

I was going to “train” the tomato plants this morning but there's a light rain!

For those interested I'll be speaking tonight at the Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Users Group this evening. I hope to see you there!

More Seedlings Given Away

We gave away more seedlings at the LA Fox User Group. The interested attendees were happy to come away with more than an education.

My wife watered the front yard plants on Monday.

The seedlings we planted are doing well in the recent heat.

I started work on the 2009 tomato spreadsheet.

I'll Be Speaking Tonight

Over the weekend my wife and I turned over the plot of land against the south fence. Hard work. Some parts had lots and lots of worms, good news!

The planted tomatoes all look healthy.

The seedlings being raised by my wife look very, very healthy.

Tonight I'll be speaking out the Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Users Group in Westchester. Come on out!

Harvested First Micro Tom

Last night I was the main speaker at our computer user group, LA Fox. That left only a little time between work and the speaking engagement.

In that time I picked 76 Red Currants, a Husky Cherry Red, Taxi, Garden Peach and Micro Tom tomatoes.

This is the first Micro Tom I've picked this year. This particular tomato turned orange a couple of weeks ago...and stayed that way. I was expecting it to turn red. When I handled it, it came off fairly easy.

I brought all of the Red Currants picked over the last two days and a few others to the user group. They were all taken by the attendees.

76 Red Currants sounds like a lot, but the average size of these Red Currants is a little over a pea. 76 peas isn't a lot of mass but it makes for an impressive count! Still, they're great in salads – simply drop them in! And this year's crop doesn't have the slightly bitter “bite” of last years tomatoes. They simply taste good.

The weather is heating up...

We live close enough to Pierce College to make their weather measurements accurate to where we live. The link to the current month's temperatures can be found here. Monday, the high was 99 and yesterday, 101. Today's temperatures will be similar.