Hey all
So I decided to join this thread, . . .
warning - lots of pics
Now before looking at these photos just remember, I live in a place where it is hard to grow anything beyond potatoes and leafy greens.
It never gets hot here, rarely is sunny, and the season is short. But! With a good big greenhouse one can do magic. . . .
In the greenhouse I currently grow Corn, Beans, Bananas, Figs, tomatoes, Tomatilloes, Peppers, Litchi Tomatoes, Summer & Winter Squash, Watermelons, assorted American European & Asian Melons, and Ground Cherries.
This is looking into the greenhouse - Less than 50% of it is in use. The water tank in back is for future Aquaponics. Yes, there's weeds on the ground to the right.
This is our Black Cherry tomato plant. It's even bigger now, after a week since I took this photo. To the left and behind it are other heirloom tomatoes, but this baby is creeping and sagging all over the place.
This here is another example of crazy tomatoes - This is a Speckled Roman, who now stands over 7 feet tall. Again, photo was taken a week or two ago and things grow a lot!
A pool of beans, Jelly Melons, and Moon & Stars Watermelons with some tomatoes edging around it. We use kiddy pools a lot here because they're a cheap and great way to get raised beds in the greenhouse.
The beans from that pool. They're Dragon Tongue beans, very tender green beans with a beautiful splash of purple over them. I have several pools filled with beans and Cukes (melons or squash) and each pool has a special kind of green bean or dry bean.
Corbaci Peppers. Despite their awesome appearance, these are candy-sweet and excellent fried!
This is one of our Banana plants, yep, Bananas. This young fella here now stands at a little over 6 feet tall and grows about 6 inches every week. I'm expecting a blossom any week now. At the moment it is sprouting up several young "pups" whom I've been transplanting now and then. I often sell the babies to others so they too can enjoy homegrown bananas. Since Bananas are seedless, at least, most of the varieties out there are - Propagation is done through the suckers that come up from the mother plant.
And here are one of its buddies, a "Blue Java" or "Icecream" Banana. They'll grow to about 12 feet tall and produce some icy blue to dusty whitish yellow colored Bananas. I have three of these. No babies yet though.
Green Sausage tomatoes - Awesome color, neat shape, amazing flavor.
A little sample of some awesome heirloom tomatoes.
More sample - The white ones on the bottom have an amazing and most favorable flavor.
A day's collection of some heirloom tomatoes and peppers
Green Grape tomatoes - One of my three FAVORITES.
A most delicious "Green Nutmeg" melon, don't let the color fool ya - This baby is 10x better in taste than a normal melon!!
An out of this world sweet and tropical tasting Orangeglo Watermelon. Who'd think one can grow Watermelons in the PNW? And my vines are still going strong
A beautiful Melon de Luneville.
A plate of Paul Robeson tomato slices.
A plate of Pineapple tomato slices.
So, I guess I consider myself serious.
I'll continue planting and growing and harvesting through the winter. Right now I'm mainly focusing on tomatoes, corn, beans, and winter squash. I'm expecting my Bananas to fruit anywhere from next month to sometime this spring. I also have a dwarf Fig tree growing in the greenhouse, the baby is growing rampantly and already gave me a fig on its first year.
As mentioned earlier we'll also be doing some Aquaponics. Not much updates yet on that, but, hopefully soon.
Outside the greenhouse it hasn't frosted yet, so I've got a lot of greens growing as well as plenty of Blue Potatoes and a couple weird random volunteer Zucchinis. By weird I mean they are shaped like such and taste like such, but start out a lime green color then go yellow, and most have slight ridges and little bumps on them.
