Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

[R2elk]

My hawthorn tree froze off a while back and like my Meteor cherry trees, it has bloomed for the first time in years.

 

[rjohns39]

Bob that is gorgeous...

at least you have neighbors who will "shop", one year i planted over a 100 tomato plants, i canned and canned til i had no room for more, tried to give the tomatoes away, all you want, just come. pick and take, they wanted me to pick and bring to them. needless to say, chickens got alot of tomatoes that year lol

I limit myself to 12 tomato plants these days. 3 big slicers, 3 early girls, 5 plums and one cherry or grape. This year I plan on rooting some suckers around August and sticking those plants in the greenhouse with fingers crossed.

ETA: BTW the lettuce I planted last fall, that never grew, came up a couple days ago. Glad I hadn't planted that spot yet.

 

[sharron]

Bob that is gorgeous...



I limit myself to 12 tomato plants these days. 3 big slicers, 3 early girls, 5 plums and one cherry or grape. This year I plan on rooting some suckers around August and sticking those plants in the greenhouse with fingers crossed.

ETA: BTW the lettuce I planted last fall, that never grew, came up a couple days ago. Glad I hadn't planted that spot yet.

wish i had your will power but i get to looking on ebay and always find ones i just have to try, i do plant the ones i love tho, pineapple, peach and delicious (for husband, he likes bite to his maters and this year trying a couple of new ones, indigo fireballs and druzba , not to mention the grape that comes back every year, no idea where it came from unless a bird flying over but since it comes up itself and produces til the others come on, i love it so all together probably will have at least two dozen plants with plant to spare. i keep pineapple and peach seeds from my plants so i always have them. next year maybe not so many since my back is giving me fits
smith co tn sounds nice

 

[lazy gardener]

ETA: BTW the lettuce I planted last fall, that never grew, came up a couple days ago. Glad I hadn't planted that spot yet.

I often plant stuff, then forget what I planted, and where I put it. So, if it doesn't make a showing in a reasonable length of time, I plant something else in that spot... often to find that I then have 2 competing crops sprouting in one spot at the same time!

All my stuff, so far, is coming up nicely in a reasonable time frame. Black flies are vicious right now. I need to get squash, both winter and summer, and corn planted. As well as some cukes. But, don't want to feed the black flies. So, may soak some seed this afternoon, and hope to get it in the ground as it sprouts.

I bought a pineapple sage today. It smells SO, SO good. Hope to use some of it in iced tea. And, hope that I can winter it over.

 

[chickadoodles]

Pineapple sage does smell so good! Hard to find stuff like that around here.

 

[rjohns39]

Has anyone ever tried to grow tomatillo? If I can find seed, is it too late to try? Anything special I need to know? When I want them, I pretty much have to drive more than an hour to get them... Thinking about growing them and canning the different things I make with them.

 

[R2elk]

Has anyone ever tried to grow tomatillo? If I can find seed, is it too late to try? Anything special I need to know? When I want them, I pretty much have to drive more than an hour to get them... Thinking about growing them and canning the different things I make with them.

I have not but do know locals that have no problem growing them. I would treat them like growing tomatoes.

 

[lazy gardener]

I don't know the days to maturity for them. If you could grow tomatoes from seed, starting now, you should be able to grow tomatillo from seed. I know folks who grow them every year, and they re-seed like crazy.

https://www.thespruce.com/growing-tomatillos-in-the-vegetable-garden-1403467

 

[lazy gardener]

You're quite a bit south of me, so it may not be too late to start some Tomatillo plants from seed. However, if there's any way for you to find started plants, that would be your best bet.

 

[CapricornFarm]

at least you have neighbors who will "shop", one year i planted over a 100 tomato plants, i canned and canned til i had no room for more, tried to give the tomatoes away, all you want, just come. pick and take, they wanted me to pick and bring to them. needless to say, chickens got alot of tomatoes that year lol

Now that is lazy!