Master Gardener column: The 2025 summer challenge

Master Gardener column: The 2025 summer challenge

WORTHINGTON — What a strange spring and summer 2025 has unfolded. A long cold dry winter slid into a warm, dry spring which finished into an overly hot, humid, wet summer. What is going on? The crops in our area look fantastic! What about your gardens, your landscape plants? I’ve noticed some odd things going on in my garden. My tomatoes are five feet tall and thick, but the tomatoes have been slow coming. Here we are into August and I’ve only p…