Today I picked the last of our Sweet Corn. Out of two raised beds, 50 stalks each, we have been eating Sweet Corn for three weeks. That's pretty good. We've shared with the neighbors, and frozen for winter and had as much as we wanted to eat. I planted Solstice and Gotta Have It. Solstice is a 70 day corn, and Gotta Have it is a 78 day corn and I planted them a week apart. The Solstice produced 40 ears and the other produced 50.
This week I got tired of one of my Dwarf tomatoes spreading blight so I hacked it out. It was the Kookaburra Cackle which wasn't a bad tomato but both plants picked up blight early on and spread it to the Adelaide and the Summertime Gold and those plants resisted quite well so I don't think they would have had a problem on their own. Kookaburra was also dropping green tomatoes left and right. I have plenty of tomatoes without having to deal with that sort of hassle
I then removed all of the diseased leaves off of the remaining plants. Just look what heavy producers these plants are. I have already picked half a dozen or more off each one.
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| Adelaide Festival |
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| Summertime Gold |
Because I removed so much foliage, I threw a 30% shade cloth over them so they wouldn't sun scald.
They will be just fine like this for the remainder of the season. I am getting some really gorgeous slicing tomatoes out of the other bed with almost no blight or disease problems at all.
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| Clockwise from upper left: Pike Co, Barlow, another Pike Co. Carbon and another Barlow |
Tonight I made a jar of my sweet/hot pickled peppers.
Instructions in this past Blog: Of Pickled Peppers
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