Ostrya's Tomato 'Shady Lady' x 1 Dying
Plant: Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) | Variety: Shady lady
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07 Oct 2012Tomato 'Sun Gold' Dying, Tomatillo 'volunteer' Dying, Tomatillo 'Purple' Dying, Sunflower Dying, Morning Gl...
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We experienced our first frost… and first killing freeze this morning. At about 1:30 AM, the temperature dipped below 32 and it was below freezing for about 6:30 hours before the sun warmed the air above the freezing point. I have two temperature sensors, one in the front of the house and o...Clear 2°C / 36°F -
02 Oct 2012Tomato 'Monica' (KG) Harvesting, Tomato 'Cirio 49' 2012 (KG) Harvesting, Tomato 'Indigo Rose' Harvesting, T...
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Clear 26°C / 79°FIn anticipation of tomorrow’s freeze, I am forcing myself to declare the end of the growing season, forgo the sheets, blankets, and other frost protection ritual, and retrieve all viable produce from the garden. There is more to do tomorrow, but getting some produce out today will reduce th...
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21 Sep 2012Tomato 'Monica' (KG) Harvesting, Tomato 'Cirio 49' 2012 (KG) Harvesting, Tomato 'Indigo Rose' Harvesting, T...
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I did the second large tomato harvest today, with some plants providing few and some plants providing many tomatoes. All of the plants show cumulative flea-beetle damage and some have contracted a blight or wilt that may have been accelerated by the flea-beetle damage on the leaves. Overall, it&#...
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14 Sep 2012Tomato 'Abraham Lincoln' Harvesting, Tomato 'Opalka' Harvesting, Tomato 'Victoria Supreme' Harvesting, Toma...
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I harvested tomatoes from almost all of the varieties in the garden. The one plant that isn’t quite ready is the Rowdy Red, which has a blight but has lots of green tomatoes on that are almost ripe. We’ll see if it can ripen the tomatoes before it succumbs. The main picture shows the ...
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05 Sep 2012
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Garden Sampler for Harvest Day
Tomato 'Amazon Chocolate' 2012 Harvesting, Earthbox #3 garden , Earthbox #2 garden , Kid's garden , Main ga...Sunny 32°C / 90°FFor harvest day today, I picked a little bit from multiple plants to create a small cache of garden produce, like a combo plate in a restaurant or a “Garden Sampler”. The first photo is a closeup of the small heap of tomatoes. The third photo almost reminds me of a very poor facsimile...
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28 Jun 2012Kid's garden , Tomato 'Opalka' , Tomato 'Rowdy Red' Flowering, Tomato 'Shady Lady' Flowering, Tomato 'Monic...
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Storms 35°C / 95°FJust a quick update on the tomatoes. Two varieties have set fruit, (Sun Gold and Indigo Rose), and almost all of the rest are flowering. The only varieties that are a little slower are: Opalka, Opalka on Big Beef, Cirio 49, and Spudakee on Big Beef. It looksl ike some of my grafted plants are abo...
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28 May 2012
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Tomatoes in the ground. Finally.
Tomato 'Abraham Lincoln' Planting Out, Tomato 'Cirio 49' 2012 (KG) Planting Out, Tomato 'Monica' (KG) Plant...Getting motivated to plant the garden this year has been strangely difficult. I’ve been nurturing the seedlings for a while and they have been outside since May 12,.. hardened and ready since May 15 or so, but I didn’t get them in the ground. I did buy a new tiller this year, a Husqva...Cloudy 25°C / 77°F
