Tomatoes

wood mulch

I have cried uncle.  The weeds are overwhelming. It is time to put in landscaping fabric.  Yes, I know.  It is a lot easier to put the new plants in to holes in the fabric, but I'm doing it backwards.  I make holes in the fabric and pull it over the tomatoes.  The landscaping fabric is black plastic with the advantage of being water permeable.  It is the only way I can figure out to get control over the grass.  I'm putting wood chips in the walkways and between the cuts of fabric.  So far the wood chips haven't become aerial in the high winds.

Earlier I had talked about the weeds that grow in the cracks in the cement.  We have been in drought conditions until last night (Thank God!).  Now if I weren't watering and babying my veggies, they would have wilted and blown away in the wind long ago.  But the weeds in the cement have gotten mid thigh high.  Yes they are huge in no soil, drought conditions...we need to mow the cement.  Uuuuggghhh!

I have a veggie village in the back of the garden.  Pole beans are reaching for the back fence (assuming the evil bunny doesn't continue to eat the tops of the plants....Mr. McGergor may have Peter Rabbit for dinner if he keeps it up).  The feathery asparagus was planted this year and is doing well at getting established.  The tomatoes fill in the spaces with a little lettuce on the edge.

Veggies are like teenage girls.  They have cliques and some veggies just don't play well with others.  There is the tomato clique, the potato clique, the cabbage clique, etc.  I thought it was interesting that tomatoes like basil in the kitchen and in the garden.  I suppose they are BFFs (Best Friends Forever-for those without teenagers).  I planted the basil in the middle of two rows of tomatoes.  The baby basil has peeked out of the soil and the Italian hubby is dancing (when he's not snatching scapes from the garlic).