My how the garden grows!

The petit jardin is out of control. Seriously. I have two tomato plants that are already over 7 feet tall (thanks mother nature, for the rain!). I have snap peas everywhere and half a dozen zucchini's that will be ready in a week or so, if I can beat the blossom end rot (fingers crossed). My cucumbers are growing like weeds and I have a little, tiny artichoke that hopefully will grow in to a big, huge artichoke all growing steadily.

The tomato experiment seems to be going well. The plants that I didn't prune have multiple flowers and many stems, so we will see how the yield goes, the plants that I did on the funky tie up canopy jobber look beautiful and are flowering well, but as always, I planted everything too close together so I have to be careful when pruning and weeding so that I don't knock out an entire plant. And finally, the staked plants look good too. I think I pruned them to heavily at the start though, I believe that I crippled the yield on these guys by being to aggressive with the suckers (the little stems that grow at the apex of the main stem and the leaves that create secondary main stems).

Anyway, the experiment has been fun, at this point I believe that I will probably grow the tomatoes in the same three ways next year. I like the appearance of all the different contraptions in the garden. Maybe next year I'll get the fancy purple tomato cages. Purple is pretty.