What did you do in the garden today?

[Ascholten]

Not a nactarine. This has many small seed covered by small fruit and it has this crown and if you cut the edges and divide it to two parts, it kinda looks like brain. We call it Rimon.

That would be a pomegranate. Some are purple and they STAIN anything that juice gets on !!

 

[Paz]

Dropped to 48 last night, and despite the inch of rain yesterday, the tomato plants are looking rough. Tossed yet another worm over the fence.

40 pounds of tomatoes that were waiting in the kitchen have been processed and are simmering on the stove.

Soon I'll be cutting the plants off at the ground to force them to direct energy to the rest of the orange tomatoes. But that's at least 15 days away.

Dug one sweet potato plant. ONE potato. Good grief.
Two more buckets to go, those plants looked better so wish me luck on that one.

tomatoes need heat. Are we talking Celsius?

 

[PopoMyers]

And I don’t know it’s English name, but it’s full of worms!

When my fruit trees were smaller, I would put nylon foot socks on all the little fruit to prevent worms. Your tree looks manageable. I have too many fruit to do that, now.

 

[Paz]

pomegranate

Sounds French to me, but yes, that’s the tree.

 

[Paz]

When my fruit trees were smaller, I would put nylon foot socks on all the little fruit to prevent worms. Your tree looks manageable. I have too many fruit to do that, now.

The harvest is in two weeks. Almost Every one of them has worms already.

 

[Ascholten]

The sweet potato's, let them go until they basically die off themselves from the frost or whatever. Also WATCH WHERE THEY GO !! From my experience they vine ALL OVER the place, and every say 5 or so feet where that vine touched ground, it'll dig in and you'll have another bunch of potato's to dig there too, don't just dig where you planted them, follow the runners.

Sweet taters love TONS of water, and fall into the category of 'Thee who I ignore Most Grows Best' plant. Just keep them watered and at the end of the season dig them then. Just let them go, see what you get out of them. I made the mistake of letting mine get out of the totes and they are now, literally growing like a carpet thru half the lawn there. Not necesssarily a bad thing but man, harvest time is going to be a bugger.

If you think they did real crappy, another option to 'calling them'... just IGNORE them, don't harvest, just leave them there in the ground. Next year they should come back with vengeance for you !!

Aaron

 

[PopoMyers]

Yikes!

When did you get yours in the ground?

I'm not sure when I should dig mine!

Before frost hits, for sure.

 

[NewBoots]

I have a tomato starting to get red

I hear you Penny, I've only had a few ripen so far as well. And here, we have fall clearly starting so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Soon I'll be cutting the plants off at the ground to force them to direct energy to the rest of the orange tomatoes. But that's at least 15 days away.

Now how does this work? Does that only go for the orange ones? Are the green ones harmed by it?

Yikes!

When did you get yours in the ground?

I'm not sure when I should dig mine!

How do you know when to dig them? DP has 4 bags of sweet potatoes planted (with a couple tomatillos sprouting out of the bags as well) and one bag of regular potatoes. The plain potato plants are dying back but the sweet potatoes are green and healthy.

Well I messed up badly on the wax beans, about 3/4 of what I picked are too old and dried up inside. Too old to eat and too fresh to use for seed. Oh well, lesson learned. I'll just cook the good ones for a couple meals, not enough to can or freeze. They grew well though so I will plant them again next year. How do you tell when green or wax beans are ready to harvest? Should I have watered them more?

Miss Prissy is laying now, we thought she'd never develop enough to lay but she is. Tiny perfect white eggs. She is so correctly named, she has bent toes on one foot, her tail cants down instead of up, she weighs hardly anything at all, and the big girls tend to push her around. But she lays and she does have her friends to hang around with.

 

[Ascholten]

tomatoes need heat. Are we talking Celsius?

that would be 116 degrees. I sure hope not !!

 

[PopoMyers]

Made for a friend from the garden. Now I have to wait for more. To bloom.