On Monday morning, we had an absolute deluge for about half an hour, 45 minutes. It rained hard again in the afternoon and again overnight. So, some of the tomatoes in the SBG cracked.
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More troubling is the state of the peppers in the SBG. While they still are small plants, they are growing. However, the peppers are never going to get a chance to get to the ripe stage.
I've got 4-5 yogurt cups with beer for slug bait, and I throw out numerous slugs from each every other day. I'm thinking the slugs are breaking into the peppers, but the tomatoes were up high, and look kind of bird-pecked. I'm culling the damaged peppers, hoping that the plants will produce more, higher up on the plants. I might try spraying the pepper plants with some garlic, soap, cayenne, oil, water mix spray. Some of the first Italian frying peppers had holes like this, but now they are untouched. Slugs must not like them as well as the bells.
Funny story about "slug bait"...My husband brews beer and a few years ago, he made a batch neither of us liked much. I hunted online and found a picture of a slug in a tuxedo, complete with top hat. I used that to make labels for the bottles and we took the "Slug Bait" beer on a club camping trip. Everyone wanted to try his beer and the consensus was that Slug Bait was the best (except for US, of course).
All the SBG tomatoes are getting huge and heavy. The ones in bags in the middle are bending the center hanging rod. Had to do a lot of tying up and stabilizing today! I'll try to take a new picture tomorrow.
! Wanted to buy some mushroom compost, (thanks for the tip, Lindsey) but they didn't have any so I bought "(something) Gold" which is horse manure composted for 7 years. Looking for organic nitrogen for these babies that won't attract every fox, raccoon, skunk or coy-dog within two counties.
