Diary entry: August 24, 2010

We picked heavily on Sunday (Aug 21):

• 2 baskets (1 bushel) of small roma-style tomatoes
• 1/2 basket of yellow and orange cherry tomatoes
• 6 slicing tomatoes -- we should have planted more.
• 2 baskets of beans.
• 6 cantaloupes
• 6 butternut squash
• 1 pumpkin

Today, I went out after work with my tiller. I tilled between all the rows and around the outside. I brought my mower from home and mowed, capturing the clippings. I placed the grass clippings on the peppers (3 plants have survived) and the okra plants.

The okra plants looks wonderful--they are almost 3-feet tall. I picked two okras that were too big. There are no other okras ready to be picked (surprisingly!).

Note for future: Do not plant okra seeds closer than 12 inches apart, even 18 inches is OK. I had expensive seeds this year, about 30 seeds total. This did not cover an entire row.

The mosquitoes are terrible this year!!