Conflicting Opinions

I’ve mentioned before that I receive many different garden magazines. Recently I noted a conflicting opinion. One article said the birds had picked all the pesky bugs from their tomato vines. A different article said the pesky birds were eating their tomatoes. I’ve been curious about this incongruity. Who is right? Today, when I noticed, what looked like a female cardinal perch on my tomato stakes, I paid close attention. She hopped up and down the vine for about 10 minutes, and then went to the next bed and did the same. After she left, I looked for damage. I didn’t see any.

Here’s my unscientific analysis: If you are an organic gardener, (like me) you have many bugs. Bugs are more delicious than tomatoes – I’m assuming that’s what the birds think, but I have the opposite opinion – so the birds will be your friend and eat the bugs. However, if you are the type of gardener who uses insecticides on a regular basis, bugs are probably not pests because you poisoned them. In this case, birds will eat your tomatoes and become pests. Maybe you should rethink your strategy.

I wrote those first two paragraphs about a week ago. Soon after that my huge tomato plant started wilting and then it was blown over in the big storm on Monday. I propped it back up, but the wilt got much worse, so on Thursday I harvested 16 pounds of green tomatoes. That’s OK because I still have 11 more tomato plants. I normally would not plant so many, but I asked Dale to get 2 at the Blooming Fest last spring, and he came home with 5 and a cockamamie story about how 5 was as cheap as 2. If he wanted me to plant extra tomatoes he could have just asked.

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I'm leaving the bells to get red.

It’s the same song second verse with the peppers, asked for 2, and got 5. So now I have 4 bells, 4 jalapenos, 3 bananas, and these odd cowhorns that look like they’re having sexy time on my table. I’d never seen a cowhorn before. Mine is spicy, hotter than the jalapenos. My neighbor says they are usually not that hot, and someone with a very hot temper planted the seed.

I’m not sure if that’s a peck of peppers, but I’m going to pickle some following these instructions from the Colorado State University Extension.