RoosterChick: A weeks worth of update

I was on vacation last week so other than take some pictures, I was enjoying my time alone.

Meow, trying to help (not!) in the garden...

Cotton flower about to bloom

Cotton flower blooming

Previously the plants were blooming pink flowers, but the newer flowers are blooming white - same plant.

Once again, my tomato staking method failed. I'm satisfied with it for the most part, but once the plants become heavy, especially top heavy, my wooden stakes snap and the system starts to fail. This year I put in bamboo stakes, one stake every two plants. I then start low on the stake and figure 8 garden twine from one stake to the next, enclosing my plants on both sides in the end. As the plants grow taller, I start a new line of twine across and around and this essentially keeps my plants upright and fairly contained. No problem until the production gets heavy and the stakes start to break. Next year I need more substantial product and I think it will all work. Maybe rebar. Anyhow, I removed the overbearing plants that were on the end that caused the problem to begin with. In my opinion, those tomatoes weren't all that tasty nor worth growing so it wasn't a big lost. I harvested what was ripe and cut the rest of the plant down, pulling the vines out. I then had to re-hammer my stake in, using two at a time instead of one this time, trimming my heavy Sausage Tomato plant (I lost less than 10 tomatoes) and then uprighting the plant and tieing it back up. Click the photos to enlarge.