Photo Round-Up

We got tomatoes!
I'm astounded by how well they are growing.
Here's the pair of socks I had to frog. Now they fit!
And here's the latest pair. Comfy, basic socks. I like 'em.
And this is the sock I'm working on now, in feather-and-fan stitch.

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The tomatoes look fabulous. Cool socks, too! Maybe I will take up knitting one day. I do have the nervous hands syndrome.

[Michelle]

What is this? Did the dog barking thing totally supersede these fabulous examples of your fortitude? Whatever.

You'll still pluck those tomatoes off, eh?! :)

[Harrison Brace]

Send me some of those tomatoes! I'm covered in bees here!

[Rana]

Knitting is great for fidgeters. :)

Yes, the tomatoes are going all out. The bottom leaves are getting yellowy, though, which worries me somewhat, because I don't know why they are. I'm also worried that they will be ripe when I'm out of town next month; D's promised to look after them, but he doesn't like tomatoes himself, so I'm hoping they won't go bad as well as uneaten. It would be really sad for them to grow all nice and red and ripe only to toss them out. :(

I tried to make the dog post go before the pictures; it didn't work. (Both were going on more or less simultaneously.)

[wolfangel]

I love the colours of the socks.

What's frogging?

[Rana]

It's unravelling a bunch of knitting by pulling on the end of the yarn (from the idea that you need to "Rip it! Rip it!" = ribbit ribbit = frog) as opposed to "tinking" one stitch at a time (tinking = knitting backward).

Yes, knitting seems to spawn cutesy jargon at the drop of a hat.

In the case of the socks, I'd shaped the toes, only to realize that the foot was too short. So I had to unravel (frog) all the stitches back to the point where the foot ended and the toe decreases began, knit more foot, then re-do the toe. A royal pain, but at least the project was small. Some people have been known to frog nearly entire sweaters!

[yami]

A few yellow leaves on the bottom is nothing to worry about, just natural leaf aging. If it starts really spreading up the plant, it could be a sign of overwatering, nitrogen deficiency, fertilizer burn, or a nasty systemic disease like fusarium or verticillium wilt. And I'm very much hoping that lower-leaf-yellowing can also be caused by russet mites, because if my plant has both mites *and* verticillium it's a goner, but with just the mites there might be hope... *sigh*

[Rana]

Hmm... I'll keep an eye on it then. So far it's just the lower leaves; the rest of the plants is vigorous and healthy.

*thinking good thoughts for your plants*

One of these days I'm going to have to brave the stacks of book boxes in my storage space and dig out the Sunset Western Garden Book. Though I don't really want to know what my storage space looks like these days...

[yami]

Heh, one of these days I'm going to have to brave the store and *buy* the Sunset book - but I keep planning to leave LA...