pleasant weather
Aug. 14th, 2008 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tagrynI must say, I am enjoying the recent weather. Highs have only been in the mid-80s, and on Monday it didn't even break 80. Humidity has been low, also; right now its only 64%. As it turns out, the normal average for August here is around the mid-80s, but what usually makes August extremely unpleasant in DC/MD is the high humidity. With the lower humidity we've been able to sleep with the windows up and able to take a break from running the AC a lot.
The tomatoes are going well, I'm averaging about three cherry tomatoes harvested a day. I got 3 plum-sized tomatoes off the vine yesterday as well, plus one red pepper, and the regular-sized tomatoes have turned a light orange; going to wait until they're red to harvest them, though. We have a number of cucumbers on the vine, I'm just letting them bulk up for now. Unfortunately I think the plants are starting to wind down for the season, so we may not get much more out of them than the current harvest. I cut back my comfrey plant over the weekend, since it had been getting overgrown and I'm hoping to get in some new growth that I can display at the county fair in September.
The tomatoes are going well, I'm averaging about three cherry tomatoes harvested a day. I got 3 plum-sized tomatoes off the vine yesterday as well, plus one red pepper, and the regular-sized tomatoes have turned a light orange; going to wait until they're red to harvest them, though. We have a number of cucumbers on the vine, I'm just letting them bulk up for now. Unfortunately I think the plants are starting to wind down for the season, so we may not get much more out of them than the current harvest. I cut back my comfrey plant over the weekend, since it had been getting overgrown and I'm hoping to get in some new growth that I can display at the county fair in September.
