More wonky weather

 It's kind of hazy overcast but 92 outside. Surprisingly with the door and windows open it's not so bad because there's no direct sunshine. So was about to turn the AC on since it's on fan right now at floor levele it's 85. No bueno. AC it is.

Post watering from day before yesterday, the cherry tomato is looking even worse and am still going to wait out the last five or six tomatoes before pulling it. Same with the peppers, they've got fruit on them and I suppose as long as I can keep things watered they may survive.

Good size when I picked it, very heavy and turns out it was more flesh than pulp. When I consulted other gardeners they all said it was fine, likely due to variety. Tasted just fine so I'm calling it a win!

 

 

That Terra Cotta tomato is really not worth saving at this point. There's tons of fruit on the cherry so it'll keep going but there's signs of mites and possible mildew. I'll be getting the trash bag and tomato cage set up when I cut that down.

I appears I have a bunch of cucumbers coming out! Definitely that one on the right and the others are still babies but will see if they develop. I think it senses imminent cutting down so it's putting out as many fruit as possible, but they still need pollinating. 

Bell pepper seems to be doing okay, here's hoping it gets to full size. The other peppers seem to be growing but one small bush at the back, no fruit. Sigh. Going to do better next year.

I am now convinced I need to super load the raised bed with soil and fertilizer every change over and make sure it's topped out. All the light composty stuff is pushed to the back corner since that's the only direction I can water. Might have to make the back a bit higher than the front so the water carries everything to the front. Dump a half bag of fertilizer into that bed along with raised bed soil is going to be the method. An 8 lb bag of the Garden Tone fertilizer is now a little over $15, other brands are 6 and 4 lb  for only a few dollars less. If I've got the money, might as well get the bigger size. Raised bed soil is still $10 and change, nothing on sale at the moment, missed the spring sale on the other soil I suspect. Two bags of that and the fertilizer is about $40, not too bad for the budget I have at the moment. 

I may put a collapsible cart on my Christmas list this year, usable for groceries and garden supplies which is a big need for us when we do our monthly grocery haul. Only other thing is some sort of hose caddy or winder that fits in the electrical closet. Everything I looked at were the big unwieldy ones that I am very familiar with from working at the garden center and wall mounted ones. I was tempted to switch back to the fabric covered ones but those are such a pain in the butt to decompress and are so prone to breaking. I might get a new spray nozzle too that swivels because currently the curve of the hose is in the opposite direction of where the head is pointed. Makes for awkward and uncomfortable handling and sometimes the head twists then of course squirts water from the coupling. I do not have the budget for a $100 hose or reel. 

 The search goes on as does the gardening, oh it seems the Jacaranda is still blooming again.. interesting.