Bolting Spinach & Tossed Tomatoes
Although warm weather is great, it does make it difficult to grow cool-weather crops. The spinach has recently started to bolt.
A fickle crop to begin with, Spinach likes cool weather and will bolt in the heat. Spinach has two life-cycles: the vegetative stage and the bolting stage. During the vegetative stage Spinach puts out tasty leaves, which emerge from the base of the plant.
The onset of heat, however, causes Spinach to send up a seed stalk (bolting). During this phase the leaves become pointy, the stem grows rapidly, and taste deteriorates. When the plant bolts, the leaves should be promptly harvested and eaten.
In other news, high winds last week tossed three tomato plants. If this hadn't happened before, it would've been fairly traumatic. But, tomato plants are resilient. After a quick pep-talk and affirmation session, they were set right-side up and were no worse for wear. The picture above is of a plant that took a header. Just look at all the tomatoes it has.
A fickle crop to begin with, Spinach likes cool weather and will bolt in the heat. Spinach has two life-cycles: the vegetative stage and the bolting stage. During the vegetative stage Spinach puts out tasty leaves, which emerge from the base of the plant.
The onset of heat, however, causes Spinach to send up a seed stalk (bolting). During this phase the leaves become pointy, the stem grows rapidly, and taste deteriorates. When the plant bolts, the leaves should be promptly harvested and eaten.
In other news, high winds last week tossed three tomato plants. If this hadn't happened before, it would've been fairly traumatic. But, tomato plants are resilient. After a quick pep-talk and affirmation session, they were set right-side up and were no worse for wear. The picture above is of a plant that took a header. Just look at all the tomatoes it has.
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