Tomatoes finally started blushing

yea my tomatoes finally started producing as wrll, It may have been the shaken they took...

Here's a cardoon plant flower, first one I've ever seen I got this at Redenta's on the 50% off shelf and had no idea what it was.


This is my brussell sprout palm


This rain should help!

Hey Damon, are those foxes still hanging around your hood?

Years ago I tasted a wild plum growing on a tree a few miles down the road and it was surprisingly good. That day I grabbed a few pits... now I have a couple of trees in my yard that produce wild plums rather well. They look a lot like cherry tomatoes and are something like a cross between a plum and a cherry.

this weeks' haul. next cucumbers will be pulled when they are much smaller for pickling.

Awesome!

first time to try mole` peppers. They are supposed to be hot, but really aren't at all. Should have bought a few poblano plants though. Cubanelles and anaheims are just as good i guess though.

I grew some HOT Tabasco Peppers the last couple of years. They are very prolific, but can be a pain in the rear to pick since they are so small.

It was funny, my mom and I both went through the garden on Tuesday and picked it clean, except some stuff that would take 3 or 4 days to mature. On Thursday, after the rain, I came to check on the houses...I went into the garden and I had two cucumbers over 15 inches long. I also had a zucchini squash was about 24 inches long and 10 inches around. HUGE! My watermelons even doubled and tripled in size and weight. Truly awesome!!

I have a black diamond watermelon plant that's about 12' long now, covered in buds, but ZERO stinking melons on it.

Hmmm...I had that for a couple of weeks on mine and then all the sudden, there they were. Is it getting enough water? Watermelons take a TON of water.

plenty of water, and I don't think it's a pollenation problem as the bees have finally found my garden and there in full force. I wish my garden was bigger, but for a total of 72sf, and two five gallon buckets, I get a pretty good haul.

I don't know what to tell you, then.

At least you're growing something. I swear, I don't understand how people can go to a grocery store and purchase 'fresh' produce without having tried something right out of the garden. It amazes me the difference in flavors...store bought tomatoes have no flavor, but dang if they aren't awesome out of the garden...same with cucumbers, egg plants, most peppers, etc.

I only have a garden the size I do because I grow food for my sisters, some older relatives and my neighbors. Otherwise, it'd be a lot smaller.

nothing like garden fresh tomatoes peppers and squash for me.

I've got about 10 tomatoes on right now, if all the flowers set fruit I'm going to be in tomatoes up to my ears.