Okay, I am in my garden doing some maintenance.

Okay, I am in my garden doing some maintenance work on my tomatoes and I thought that I would

record myself. I'm going to talk to you all a little bit about what I'm up to.

So on my land I have two garden spaces that I grow vegetables in.

And the garden I'm in right now is what we call our upper garden.

And it's called the upper garden because it's at the top of the hill that our house is on.

So it's right outside of our kitchen actually and in this garden this year we are

growing tomatoes we have probably about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, maybe 16 tomato plants in our upper

garden and then we also have Swiss charred, rosemary,

spinach, basil, beans, and peppers,

and Mary Golds as well as a few other random plants and some onions that grow wild in here all in our upper garden. Right now I'm working on my tomato plants. So one of the

challenges of growing tomatoes is that they are very susceptible,

especially tomatoes in Minnesota,

are very susceptible to fungus that we call blight.

And it shows up as teeny tiny little brown spots at first, little brown spots on the leaves.

And then those brown spots, those speckles grow and multiply and cover the whole leaf and kill the entire stem. And so you can really tell when a stem has blight on it

because not only is it covered in these brown speckles but also there will be no flowers at the end of that stem and

no fruit can grow on it. And the fungus is very, very viral.

So as soon as you see it show up in your garden,

you have to cut the stems off that you see the speckles on.

Sometimes the blight actually gets into the root stem of the plant,

in which case you just know that that plant is going to die and sometimes that happens after it's already started producing actual tomato fruits.

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