Marion's Miscellaneous Musings

The dog, who got a lot of sympathy when she hurt her back leg, lay down in the carrot patch. Now I should mention that I don't do carrots in nice rows. I have discovered that you get the same amount of carrots if you just spread the seeds from the package all over the raised bed. (Before the 24 dams on the Columbia River, our back yard was part of the overflow. It has a whole bunch of nice big rounded rocks. So we have to use raised beds.) Anyway, since she broke off the tops of all the carrots, I had to harvest. Which is overdue anyway.

And I touched a slug.

This has totally ruined my day.

So I got a trowel (man is a tool using animal) and harvested with that for a while. Then I picked 3 more cucumbers and about 2 quarts of cherry tomatoes. After spraying down the carrots outside, the slug slime was STILL ON MY HAND. I had to scrape it off with the pot scraper.

I am not going to feel clean until I shower.

The top picture is the cherry tomato bush. It is on one end of a 4 foot by 8 foot raised bed. It is a very good year for this bush! It has totally taken over. The variety is sun sugar, and is ripe when orange (second picture). It is a low acid and high sugar tomato, and my husband loves them. So does everybody else. I don't expect them to last long.

OK, part of that bush (but not very much of it) is a green zebra tomato, which is ripe when green and has stripes. It is an OK tomato, we probably won't plant it again. I wish the brandywine tomato bush had lived, I would like to know if it produced good tomatoes. But it had too much competition from the sun sugar bush and the carrots. The carrots have greenery that is easily 3 feet high. some of them are 1 1/2 inches in diameter!

You can see the dog thinking there has got to be a squirrel in that mess of a tomato bush somewhere. Well, she is right about slugs, anyway, but I doubt she wants them!.

The slug is dead.

I probably better run the pot scraper through the dishwasher tonight.