the good - eggplant (as always - they are so, so easy when grown in containers - they love hot roots), most of my tomatoes - especially the ones I am working on for our dwarf stature tomato breeding project. Of my nearly 100 tomato plants, we are harvesting from 60 or so, with the major players (Cherokee Purple, Cherokee Chocolate, Cherokee Green, Lucky Cross, Brandywine) coming on soon.
the bad - downy mildew finally hit all of my Genovese basil - it is becoming a real problem here. Bacterial spot has hit most of my peppers - first time ever - 25 years gardening here - with the problem, and no idea where it came from. The heat and humidity - it is time to water twice a day...and hard to be out there after about 1 PM
the ugly - a few tomatoes that went down to tomato spotted wilt. Lower tomato foliage on most plants - septoria leaf spot and early blight (alternaria) - I have to keep ahead of it by pulling ugly foliage every few days. I also seem to have three straw bales with persistent herbicides - the plants are simply wilting - even when well watered - although the foliage is still green,
I've got loads of pictures - facebook, instagram mostly (@nctomatoman)
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