This morning, just as a thunderstorm was about to hit, I picked almost 14 pounds of Early Girl II tomatoes for the St. Anne Food Pantry. This was my first picking from that patch, and almost a month later than my first picking last year. All tomatoes were late this year. I am not sure why, maybe because of the cold weather in May and June. There were quite a few tomatoes that I had to throw away as they were starting to rot from the bottom.

Noe & Company came this morning and removed the buckthorn behind the container garden. Then they cleaned up the weeds and put down mulch and steppingstones. I’ll finish with some new plantings and whatever else I come up with. I am hoping this overhead shot lets me work out some ideas.

I have mostly been focused on Early Tomatoes in my garden. Because of the damage from my groundhog, I am looking at cucumbers and zucchini I can plant now and still get a harvest before the first frost. I found these two on Burpee’s site and ordered them. I’ll try to get them locally to save a few days.

I need to think about this next year for second plantings or replantings of failed crops.

Burpee’s Heyday Cucumber
48 days to maturity.

Burpee’s Best Squash
40 days to maturity