Barron Community Garden

10/14/2026

We need to start doing this in the garden.

10/11/2026

09/11/2026

Go out to the tomatoes before the light goes and count the flowers. Then take them all off.

Every yellow star open tonight is a promise the plant cannot keep. In warm weather a flower takes six to eight weeks to become a ripe tomato, and September nights stretch that. If your first frost is inside six weeks, and in most of the North it is, the flower is spending the plant's last strength on fruit that will be green and hard when the cold comes.

So pinch them. Every flower, every fruit smaller than a pea. On the tall vining kinds, nip the growing tip off just above the highest cluster of real tomatoes, and stop there. The bush types that set all at once do not need it. The plant now has nothing to do but size up and colour what it already carries, and the gain is honest but modest. It will not double the crop. It will finish it.

If you garden where the frost holds off until November, leave the flowers alone until October. You have the time.

Count what you took off. It is usually more than you would guess. 🍅

08/29/2026

This woman is a wealth of knowledge!

08/27/2026

Any community gardeners interested in this opportunity? Sounds like it’s educational and fun!

08/12/2026

Look at this beautiful bounty!

08/06/2026

Yum!!!!!