Thread by @UrsulaV

Very pleased with these “New Big Dwarf” tomatoes. A solid heirloom that does great for me in grow bags. Biggest tomatoes I’ve ever grown.

That said, they are possibly the most determinate tomato I’ve ever known. The first fruits ripen and the plant is like “DEATH THOU COMEST” and immediately starts to croak. It’ll probably hold on long enough for most everything to ripen, but it is NOT lingering.

Which honestly I don’t mind at all, I have plenty of time left in the season to plant bush beans in the bags once the tomatoes are done, but damn.

A certain Strong Independent Chicken comes running whenever I go into the fenced off veggie garden, because she has learned that I will toss her any split tomatoes. She now stalks me whenever I go outside.

This little beauty is a Small Wonder spaghetti squash! Billed as a personal size spaghetti squash. (Mind you, Kevin feels a regular sized one is “personal” size.)

Plants were productive but did not handle our dry spell well at all. Couldn’t keep them watered enough, and most have given up the ghost. Will tear them out shortly and put in pole beans and cucumbers and see if I can get a crop before frost.

KEVIN: I have consolidated the bowls of tomatoes into one and put it where Hound wont’t counter surf it!
ME: *comes in from garden* I have some bad news…