Seeds to Harvest Gardening Challenge (Update July 4, 2011))

Well, I somewhat naively thought that you just didn't have to do much in the garden if there weren't many weeds and enough rain, you just let the plants grow. Grow they will! They will grow every which way and every where and they will become a tangled mess that you nearly can't harvest your tomatoes from! So, Friday evening, I looked online for some help on how to prune tomato plants. I found this extremely helpful site that I thought I had bookmarked and apparently did not. So sorry that I can't link to it for you because it gave me the confidence that I needed to get out there and do something about my overgrown, unruly tomato plants. Each year we plant something, I learn something new. This year, I am learning more about tomatoes and how to properly prune them and that we only need 1 cherry tomato plant since I'm the only one that eats them in my salad! LOL

Our pitiful looking box of tomato bushes before I started pruning.

Here is the bottom of one of the plants that I pruned. I only got one finished Friday evening and haven't had time to get back out there and deal with the rest of them. As you can see, the tomatoes are growing beautifully and hopefully now that they will be getting more of the sugar from the plant they will ripen up and be delicious to eat!

Meanwhile, the pepper plants are growing more neatly and producing lots of peppers! Hooray! Also, the watermelons are coming along but I don't have much hope for the cantaloupe or pumpkin we planted due to our tomato situation. Oh, and Emily is falling behind on the herbs! They are growing like weeds! LOL

Update 7/7/11
I found the website where I was helped so much with pruning our tomatoes!

Pruning Tomatoes