Turns out that I was wrong about those tomato vines, as you can see. There are tomatoes ripening on the vine, but they were over, under and around all of that vine, on the inside, as it were. The bad news is that when I went out to have a closer look I discovered that my heirloom vines are trying to commit suicide. They’re growing so long that they’re b-e-n-d-i-n-g over the tops of the wire tomato baskets, crushing their limbs in the process. Left to their own devices, I’m afraid we would have few tomatoes at all — and the ones we would get would be munched by snails since they’re on the ground.

Time for some emergency repair. I tied, taped and staked for nearly an hour. We’ll see if they recover from the procedure.