Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Potager Progress
Just for the record, I want it known that the potager did produce tomatoes this year. Now, they're not ripe yet, and that's the issue. If the deer get to them before I do, at least I'll have the pictures of what might have been. Deer damage has been light, up to this point. They nibbled on a Salvia argentea and sampled a pepper plant, but that's it. This is still a work in progress, but I'm very pleased the with progress so far. The soil there is some of the best I've ever gardened. It's sandy and deep - a welcome change from all the clay I'm used to. Lucky, lucky, lucky. So far. Keeping my fingers crossed....
4 Comments:
You are very brave to have the tomatoes out in the open.
Ki: Brave, me? It's just naive optimism. Next year's big project might be a fence :-)
I'll keep my fingers crossed that the tomatoes ripen and you'll be eating them soon ... rather than the deer.
That is a big garden!
Kate: Thanks for the good wishes. After looking over the tomatoes this weekend, I decided I'm going to try to enclose them with some kind of mesh. They're getting too close to harvest to just leave the whole thing to chance.
I think the photo makes it look bigger than it really is. It's just 10 tomato plants, 16 peppers, 2 eggplants, and some assorted herbs and flowers.
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