Glad to hear someone's garden is doing good. I'm giving up on tomatoes ... can't grow them in the summer because it's too hot ... and now what I'm sure is herbicide drift has taken out the fall planting. I'm only a few miles (less than 3) from the Gulf so there's always a breeze here. So anyone around me that uses a herbicide has a good chance of contaminating my plants. The day I saw the Tru-Green people here in the park, I did spray the plants after they left. Either that was too late, or another application got them. Either way, no tomatoes for Mary K. this year
And, I'm sure they have no concern for how it affects other people here ... they have a job to do and they just spray away.
I have some broccoli and cabbage that I started from seeds ... they're doing OK, but like you said, Elaine, it's so hot still. I've started another planting from seeds so hopefully by the time they're ready to go into an EarthBox, it'll be a lot cooler. I suppose the bright side to the tomato fiasco is that I'll have more boxes available for broccoli lol. We all love broccoli so that's something to look forward to. I want to get some onions and radishes started as well, but again, too hot. I planted some radishes a few weeks ago thinking it would be cooling off, but it hasn't and they didn't even sprout.
Here's what the tomatoes look like now -- the leaves just dry up and eventually the plant dies.
good luck to the other Florida gardeners ... hope you all have a great garden this fall/winter.
