Garden Reboot
Time to make some tough decisions in my little garden this week.  In such a tiny space everything has to pull its weight...

So out come the zuchinnis. One because I think I have enough shredded and stashed in the freezer to make a winter's worth and of zuke muffins.  And two, because though the plants are still pretty healthy, their production has slowed way, way down.  So out they come to make way for fall crops.

And here's a trick for tired tomatoes:
My tomatoes are still producing well, but blight has killed the lower leaves and the vine is outgrowing its support.

First I removed the lower leaves from the tomato vine.  They were not in good shape and the fruit from the lower portion of the plant had already been harvested so nothing is lost.

Next I dug a trench across the bed and laid the vine in it.  This is just the bare vine part, not all the way to the

top.

Then I covered up the vine and watered it in.  Because of the design of my beds, I was able to just move the support pole to the other side and reattach the now much-shorter vine. Roots should form along the buried portion of vine which will give the vine a boost that should take it up to frost.