The cherry tomatoes have continued their remarkable growth. Here they are last Tuesday:
And today:
They're still leggy, though. Look at how much space there is between branches.
(Abid Aslam at the
International Food Policy Research Institute pointed out that leggy tomatoes could be a good thing, but only if you're talking about women.)
The leaves are pretty limp, too, even though I've got the fan on them 24-7 in an attempt to toughen them up. Still, onward we go.
Across the cubicle, the lettuce is coming along, too. Here's the first batch, planted about three weeks ago, out from under the grow lights:
And here's the second batch, planted about two weeks ago:
Enough with the misquoting, Baragona! (Or maybe I should learn to speak more clearly.) You had said, in a previous post, that "leggy" was good for blondes, bad for tomatoes. I said that on much of Staten Island, a blessed plot not far from your homeland, women were referred to as "tomatoes". The value judgment was yours, mine was just a linguistic tidbit.
ReplyDeleteNow don't let's get started on a discussion of limp leaves.
Keep up the good work; we need more enterprising farmers like you if we're going to feed a world of nine billion in 2050!
Ah! I stand corrected. Farming the Cubicle regrets the error.
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