Twenty weeks is upon us now, and things are changing rapidly in the garden once again. Those soaring branches ripe with the promise of fruit have been dragged back down to earth by the harsh realities of a 9-5 job, I mean heavy cherry tomatoes. You can see two branches on the left side that grew too far, too fast and can't support their progenies weight. One branch still valiantly sticks up behind the light canopy, but it will also fall if it is too successful. Otherwise the tomatoes are doing fine. Since it's an even week, I'll give them their food rations. This is the last of the rations though, so in another two weeks the starvation begins. I've also observed an interesting phenomina where the branches that don't bear fruit tend to shrivel at the base, thereby constricting the whole branch and eventually causing it to fall off. I still can't understand why an other wise good sunlight gathering branch would be sacrificed like this, but I clean up their corpses none the less.
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