Dan Brume

There’s a bunch of babies starting to hatch in the garden! Read on…

The Sweet Corn

I noticed the first ear of corn on one of the larger plants tonight. It already has silk to catch the falling pollen from the tassels off the top of the stalk. This is the first year I’ve grown corn and it’s very exciting to see the first ears starting to form. I hope the wind stays down to help in pollination over the next few days as I’ve noticed that quite a few of my stalks have tassels forming at the top and the silk on the stalk should be forming soon.

I also noticed something kind of weird on one of the other corn plants, it seems to have another stalk coming out of where an ear should be. From what I’ve read, this is a tiller, a secondary stalk and should be lower to the ground. I’ll have to keep an eye on it and see what happens.

The Brandy-wine Tomatoes

I’ve noticed something odd with a few of my Brandy-wine tomatoes, a few have split in a bad way and has exposed the inside of the fruit. My first instinct is to take them off and make room for other, healthier looking tomatoes.  Turns out that this could be caused by blight or uneven watering. The other tomatoes, and the plant itself aren’t showing similar signs, so I suspect that our recent weather played a big part in this. We’ve been having heavy rain followed by hot sunny weather. This is most likely the cause of the split tomato. Below is a picture of the it what I’m referring to.

Below, is one of the less-developed tomatoes that have had a more steady watering pattern.

The Three Sisters

As a final update, here is a picture of the same Three Sister’s mound in an earlier post. The weed control is working quite well and the plants seem to be growing well. I’ve been eating the peas right off the vine until there’s enough to harvest.