Well, well, well. This week saw the unscheduled harvest of 2 Jalapenos. I noticed one afternoon that 2 of the peppers on one of the plants had this strange looking linear wound on the outside of the fruit. Upon close examination, it seemed too "perfect" for a scratch resulting from the mashing and twisting of the plants in the too-small growspace. As you can see in the picture below, it looks like a big dot, small dot, big dot, small dot pattern. There also seemed to a harder to see vertical line along the "spine" of the pepper near the bottom (barely visible in the first picture at the bottom). Long story short, I have not and still can't see any insects at all in the garden, but this sure looks like the work of some kind of little critter. So I still have no idea what might be causing it. Regardless, we ate it, and it was delicious. That brings the total harvested pepper count to: 4.
I've been much more aggressive watering the tomatoes this past week, and am pleased to report no new incidence of blossom end rot. I wouldn't say the tomatoes are growing significantly larger, but at least we're not going backwards this week! No wasted fruit!
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| The rest of the Jalapenos are growing and realistically could be harvested almost anytime. |
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| Tons of glossy peppers! |
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| Did I mention both plants are now tied upright, so as not to fall over? |
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| One of the tomato plants also started to fall over this week, so I had to add some extra supports. |
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| Looks like a forest |
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| This shows how much the tomatoes are hanging out the "side" of the garden....there's just not enough space! |
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