gardenbre3: Day 9 - Tomato Staking

It rained enough that I didn't go to the allotment for a week and then the forecast was for more rain so I decided to head out of town for a week since I knew watering wouldn't be a problem. Yikes! Two weeks and two foot weeds! Almost all my tomatoes had grown a couple of feet as well without having been staked - HA - a pretty knarly sight of sideways growth - they were all taking a nice little nap on the red mulch cover cloth when I got there. So instead of popping just a few more tomatoes in I spent the day weeding and twisting ties around poles and snapping bottom stems and the 'inbetweeny' stems out of the top stems. Owy-owy owy -my fingernails hurt - and it's not helping that I am typing this now.

It was supposed to have only been 25C but holy crow it was hot but when I took breaks from staking the toms I worked the soil to plant my two new raspberry plants in (I soaked them for a few hours and the soil they were going into) and I dug up some soil to pile up around the potatoes which had grown two foot stems where no stems had been before, too, and by the time I made it home - here's how dirty I was ... I was so filthy I had to get cleaned before having my bath!