August 30, 2009 Back From Vacation

After a week away at the beach, this is the mess we came back to. All the sunflowers were drooped from their own weight, many tomatoes rotting on the vine and on the ground, all the cantaloupes rotting, a watermelon split and rotting, and even a few of the peppers were rotting. I guess I picked the wrong week to leave everything!

I removed two tomato plants and pruned back the others. All the rotting tomatoes are now in a pile along with some other garden refuse. so things look a little more put together now. I harvested all that could be salvaged and there are still plenty of green tomatoes yet to ripen. So the season isn't over yet, but I definitely lost quite a bit!