What did you do in the garden today?

[LaurenRitz]

Just finished transplanting some of my dryland tomatoes. I need to get the main garden varieties transplanted but they'll have to wait until I get the dryland tomatoes out in the greenhouse.

Dryland tomatoes will go out in the ground without water, and whatever grows and produces will get priority in my main garden next year. Last year 7 out of 32 plants produced under those conditions. 24 lived. Romas did the best, with all four plants producing at least 1 fruit. Mortgage Lifter lived and blossomed, but never fruited.

Sweet potatoes are starting to sprout.

 

[LaurenRitz]

My sole hope right now is that he'd have to get the parcel rezoned for multi-tenant. Of course I and our neighbors would try to fight it... However there's a guy whose pretty entrenched in our small city government who absolutely hates my husband. He's our fire chief but he also runs a surveying company. My DH has to inspect his work in another county and says the guy is shady as a $3 bill. He's constantly having to make him fix things and follow the law. If that guy could screw my husband over by getting the zoning committee to rezoned, he absolutely would...not to mention that he'd more than likely get the survey contract for a subdivision plot.

Yeah, I could fight it but it'd be expensive and a stressful headache. I'd rather just move before I have to deal with it.

Of course, nothing has happened yet... Mostly because interest rates are so high and no one is building much right now.

Check the city plan. If they have your area planned for high density in the future you're less likely to win.

 

[jerryse]

61 yesterday 55 predicted today. Feels like it could hit 60. I found I should no longer eat peppers. Made a pizza and put sweet peppers on it. Oh, my belching and farting.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Check the city plan. If they have your area planned for high density in the future you're less likely to win.

Our city has less than 6000 people and is still considered very rural. They don't have areas planned like that. Heck, I only got the city to put in SIDEWALKS down one of our busy side streets because too many kids were nearly struck by cars trying to walk to school. Even then, they refused to do it until I got the state officials involved and it made them look bad. It's a nice town... "Lowest" crime rate in the state (personally I think they are refusing to report property crime accurately). Little to no violent crime. It's a highly desirable area but most of the urbanization is happening as landowners on the surrounding edges of town are selling their property to developers for astronomical prices and they are putting in subdivisions. It's happening organically, not through any planned or thoughtful activity.

 

[LaurenRitz]

We'll see...That's a tomato stuffed into the stem of a potato. I used a toothpick to make the hole. I'll report back if the tomato lives.

 

[cj2024]

This Coral cherry tomatoes I got from Hoss Tools are new this year 2025. My plants look like Coral, they don't grow straight up. I stop pruning the suckers because the tops turn into flower and new growth comes from the suckers and the suckers turn into flower. It has a strange Coral growth appearance. However, it's a heavy yielding plant .

I have fruit but I haven't tasted it yet. The skin supposed to be thinner than supermarket grape tomatoes. Thats what I didn't like about my sweet Princess Yum Yum grape tomatoes I grew last year. The skin on it was too thick, so it took a long time to get ripe. Hopefully, this one turns ripe faster and is just as sweet.

 

[cj2024]

We'll see...That's a tomato stuffed into the stem of a potato. I used a toothpick to make the hole. I'll report back if the tomato lives.
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I want to know what will happen.

 

[WthrLady]

Makes me wonder how your current drought/weather patterns compare to the dust bowl of the 1930s? Maybe this is part of a natural cycle?

It is.

 

[WthrLady]

ask your kids if they are interested in homesteading. if not you can stay there. we are getting older and won't be able to do much work. 5 acres are big enough to deal with neighbors. my 2 cents.

(btw who says the guy will live long enough to build?)

Ya, but the second the planning board OKs the building of multi family dwellings behind her, the value of her property plummets.
@TJAnonymous would be better getting top dollar and settling somewhere else.
With the duplexes, comes light, noise, traffic, complaints about farm animals noise/smells, trash, trespassers........etc.

 

[TJAnonymous]

It's nearly 80 degrees outside. It's hot...

But I managed to get the center walkway inside the hoop house weeded and refurbished the landscape fabric to do a better job of keeping the weeds down.

I also worked on my greens bed. Cleaned out all the scrub. I pulled up some old weed barrier from last year and found this stringy orange fungi all over in the soil and on the weed barrier fabric. Anyone know what this is? I tried briefly to Google search. Lots of other people asking about it but I didn't see any actual confirmation of what it is.

I got my kale, spinach, and some lettuce seeded. Forgot to go put the seed potatoes in the ground so I'll get those done tomorrow.