Quote Originally Posted by smilingcat View Post
I love Lisa's garden. You so lucky. Everything is so green. Around here its brown borwn brown....
Oh we ended up pulling one of our tomato plants out. Second one will be yanked this weekend. We've been battling with aphid problem. All thanks to the june gloom fog during the last month. We've also had some 2 legged varieties, who are helping themselves to not quite ripe tomatoes. We had to install a pad lock to our gate!! And we are installing a green colored chicken wire mesh around some plants.

I HATE CALIFORNIA!!
Wow, I never heard of anyone who hated living in California before!
I've never been on the west coast, so what do i know.
Brown brown brown...are you being prohibited from watering plants because of drought conditions there?
2 legged?- you mean people are going into your garden and taking tomatoes??
Maybe it's kids- I actually did that once with a kid pal when we didn't think very logically about 'private property'. We were so ashamed and mortified when the grownups called us on it!

We've had the weirdest summer....SO SO much rain and of course that means way less heat and sun. That meant (aside from way less bicycling ) a great lettuce crop, but not so great for tomatoes. A lot of people are now having mildew/mold blight problems in their veggie plants around here.
Though my lettuce is still going great, I can see lots of it is starting to want to bolt, which means many of the larger lettuce plants will soon need to be pulled and composted. Bolted lettuce can look pretty and lush, but often tastes bitter. We are due for some hot dry weather soon, and my lettuce will definitely hate that, along with my spinach seedlings. I'll just keep planting a little lettuce and spinach seed every week or so in the new garden, so that when things start to cool down at the end of summer the babies will be ready to quickly spring into action.

Our giant garden fence is DONE...next comes the finishing phase of filling in all the garden paths and the perimeter with mulch and cleaning up and reseeding the lawn that was torn up with all the work going on.
I'll try to take some pix of the fence later today. It's quite impressive!