This is lovely. How nice that you're still able to have your own little bit of nature to tend despite your location. Hope it continues to thrive for you!
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Very beautiful! Two recommendations though (if you don't mind). Your tomatoes look good and healthy, but their lower leaves are quite dense and some are touching the soil, two things that encourage leaf spot disease. I'd recommend pruning everything that's touching the ground, which will eliminate that vector and greatly help with airflow.
Secondly, I would strongly suggest moving the mint that you have in the center of the bed into an isolated container/pot asap. Mint is highly invasive and can choke out the other plants in your garden. I once planted mint in a raised box, and when I went to go pull it out, I found runners as long as 5-6 feet going everywhere. I was very thorough in my removal, but I still found little sprigs of mint in that whole area of the yard years later. Even grown in a pot, I once found a runner snaked out of a drainage hole and making its way down into a crack in the concrete.
Thank you very much. We're always happy to hear some feedback!
I never knew about leaf spot disease. I think we will go treat those lower leaves tomorrow morning. It's about to storm here :)
As for the mint it basically felt like it 5x in growth, and I can definitely see it becoming invasive on the other plants. We even trimmed it down and cut some big roots and they came right back so yes we will look at possibly relocating it.
Cheers!