LOL UncleC
As you said, "when we are away, the gnomes will play"
So as promised, here are the Garden Girls. Having some issues with bud rot in the garden that is likely to require early partial harvest if I can't get ahead of it.
Little Sista looking healthy and showing very little sign of bud rot.
Here is Big Mamma who due to how yellow she is and spots of bud rot, will likely be harvested before the week is out.
This is the Cherry Bomb I entered in the POTM contest.
All the girls here in the garden appear to be falling behind the Girls Gone Wild in the yard and are also all showing signs of bud rot. There has been very little rain fall here in the past couple months and now with the sun lower in the sky, I don't think the garden girls are getting all they need from mother nature for this stage of their life. Large trees to the south of the garden shadow it much of the day and with heavy dews in the morning, this is likely the leading factor of bud rot in the garden. I doubt I will plant any girls here again next year as the wild ones are doing better .
Now for the girl that the troublesome gnomes had their way with. I do believe, knowing what I had done to support her prior to leaving on my trip, that these particular gnomes were of the 4 legged variety LOL
As you can see in the picture, the top of this Cluster Bomb has been broken and laying completely over. There are 6 large 4 legged gnomes roaming around here and my guess, seeing the damage done, is that they were playing around this girl while I was away. During their fun, I would say they got tangled in the support lines causing the damage.