Our backyard garden looks pretty wild these days. The timed drip irrigation has really helped. We had to increase the watering frequencies given the scant rainfall these past two weeks. What’s that joke…?
“It was so dry we saw two trees fighting over a dog.”
With these dry spells comes the prospect of bad things happening to tomatoes when we do get a big rain. Our “perfect” unripe tomatoes can only handle so much water before the tomatoes split into cracks. As tomatoes approach maturity the skin becomes more fragile and more tightly stretched. So they split and crack which often invites intruders like ants to access the soft interior.
As tomatoes approach maturity the skin becomes more fragile and more tightly stretched.
