The Tomatoes Are Dying! The Tomatoes Are Dying!
Yesterday, my neighbor Craig, the Home Brewer, was talking to Ernest, the old man with the very prolific garden, and during their tete-a-tete they hit upon the same observation: their tomatoes weren’t doing so well. Sadly, mine aren’t either. Hoping to solve this mystery, Craig start doing some research and discovered a very discouraging fact—tomatoes stop producing flowers after the temperature gets above 95 degrees. Well, guess what? It’s been above that mark just about every day for the last two weeks, and 100-degree temperatures are projected for later this week. Only in Texas.
The lack of tomatoes combined with the near obliteration of my zucchini crop (thanks to what appears to be fungal rot) is a real blow to my quest for full self-sufficiency. I’m going to knock two whole percentage points off the…
Self-Sufficiency Meter: 27%