Your 2024 Garden

[fuzzi]

The seeds I planted on Friday & Saturday are sprouting!

Lettuce (Baker Creek)

Beets (old Burpee seeds)

Rutabaga (Baker Creek)

Carrots always take longer to germinate.

I watered all the raised beds and took photos, it's too hot to do much else.

 

[tripletfeb]

Today I picked even more tomatoes. Plan on canning them tomorrow. I also picked quite a few of my alma paprika peppers. They will be dehydrated and turned into...paprika

 

[Nomadicus]

Yes! One of my best producing tomatoes this year is Ace 55, which was originally a hybrid too.

Heirloom (better name is OP, ie, open pollinated) varieties are important to me because I save seed.

Hmmm... I could plant some hybrids, save some seed, and see what I get. I would guess the seed wouldn't run true, but I might get something I like. Something to think about over the winter.

That's what seed companies do. Some of the time you will get a winner for that fist generation only maybe and then again within a couple of generations they may start to breed true.

 

[Nomadicus]

Today I picked even more tomatoes. Plan on canning them tomorrow. I also picked quite a few of my alma paprika peppers. They will be dehydrated and turned into...paprika

I got to many irons in the fire and never got paprika seeds ordered. We just bought a bottle of it as a result.

 

[Nomadicus]

We weighed two of the largest sweet potatoes today and the 2 combined weighed in at over 2lbs and 10oz. That is four meals for us. Rain delayed digging more of them today. Maybe more tomorrow.

 

[tripletfeb]

I got to many irons in the fire and never got paprika seeds ordered. We just bought a bottle of it as a result.

This was more of an experiment than anything else. Last year I did onion powder and loved it so I wanted to do something else. I will grow these peppers from now on, they were so easy and did great. What I will not grow again is the Cherokee Purple tomatoes. I am not impressed with them at all. They don't have much flavor and got so big so fast that a lot split on the vine. Then went bad after just a few days. When I picked more romas tonight, I looked at the Cherokees and just shrugged and gave up on them. So many were bad and rotten already

 

[NanaK]

This was more of an experiment than anything else. Last year I did onion powder and loved it so I wanted to do something else. I will grow these peppers from now on, they were so easy and did great. What I will not grow again is the Cherokee Purple tomatoes. I am not impressed with them at all. They don't have much flavor and got so big so fast that a lot split on the vine. Then went bad after just a few days. When I picked more romas tonight, I looked at the Cherokees and just shrugged and gave up on them. So many were bad and rotten already

I grew Cherokee Purple a few years ago. Their taste did not impress me either.

 

[Sally PB]

What I will not grow again is the Cherokee Purple tomatoes. I am not impressed with them at all.

Me neither. I gave them three years, and nope, no more.

 

[Nomadicus]

This was more of an experiment than anything else. Last year I did onion powder and loved it so I wanted to do something else. I will grow these peppers from now on, they were so easy and did great. What I will not grow again is the Cherokee Purple tomatoes. I am not impressed with them at all. They don't have much flavor and got so big so fast that a lot split on the vine. Then went bad after just a few days. When I picked more romas tonight, I looked at the Cherokees and just shrugged and gave up on them. So many were bad and rotten already

I've had the same bad results with most all of these types of tomatoes. You just never know until you try a new variety. I have had the same results with Brandywine. Only 3-4 tomatoes and they were so full of disease they died. It's really been a bad learning cure here in this new environment here for us. Even what had been tried and true in other southern and Midwestern areas have been a dismal failure. I have a new variety in the ground now call Invincible. Supposedly very disease resistant and of a uniform size and should be ideal for canning. I have a few new improved Celebrity tomatoes in the ground now too. Weather delayed the fall planting and then it has turned on the heat now so they are getting a real test. There is a tomato Mosaic virus that is prevalent in these parts that makes it a real challenge a lot of the time to get a good crop in. I do not know yet how it is transmitted or how to get around it. If it gets any worse the only work around is store bought canned tomatoes on a buy one get one sale.

 

[fuzzi]

I've had the same bad results with most all of these types of tomatoes. You just never know until you try a new variety. I have had the same results with Brandywine. Only 3-4 tomatoes and they were so full of disease they died. It's really been a bad learning cure here in this new environment here for us. Even what had been tried and true in other southern and Midwestern areas have been a dismal failure. I have a new variety in the ground now call Invincible. Supposedly very disease resistant and of a uniform size and should be ideal for canning. I have a few new improved Celebrity tomatoes in the ground now too. Weather delayed the fall planting and then it has turned on the heat now so they are getting a real test. There is a tomato Mosaic virus that is prevalent in these parts that makes it a real challenge a lot of the time to get a good crop in. I do not know yet how it is transmitted or how to get around it. If it gets any worse the only work around is store bought canned tomatoes on a buy one get one sale.

I have read that TMV is transmitted through contaminated tools, gloves, even contaminated soil that gets splashed on the leaves.