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-A.J. Despite the dry summer, the tomatoes, as a group, are late: (L-R) Roma, Old German, Black Krim A closeup, looking down on the Romas: The Wednesday harvest. Mostly Oregon Spring. On the top right are Black Krim, bottom right are Cherokee Purple: Many of the Carmens will likely get harvested this […] -A.J. Fall is approaching. There are lots of tomatoes but they’d better hurry up! The Romas. To be fair, we harvested the 8 ripest fruits last night, so these are all leaning green: This is going to be the biggest Black Krim we’ve ever seen: This is our first year with the Old […] -A.J. It finally rained last night after fifty-five days of no rain. Today was cool and drizzly, but it was a good day to get out and do some heavy pruning on the tomato plants. The harvest, including ripe Oregon Spring, Roma, and Black Krim tomatoes, tomatillos, and cucumbers. The green tomatoes for our pet store guy: […] -A.J. It’s supposed to get hot this week. So far the harvests have been small and steady. The garden will likely go crazy starting in a few days. The Tromboncino: The tomatillos. It’s (past) time to run twine to support the lanky branches, they’re in danger of breaking off. Note the seedlings in the foreground: […] -A.J. It’s the middle of July, and we’re about to turn the corner from “growth” to “production”. The raspberries are in full swing: There’s a lot more where that came from. Nice output from a pot on the patio: The other fun find today were what I think are filet beans — the […] -A.J. We’ve had our first couple of really warm days, and the fans are now out of the garage. The warm-weather veggies are digging it. I love gardening this time of year because everything is young and vibrant, and the garden is growing and doing it’s own thing with a minimum of work input. We’re […] -A.J. A few pictures of the June garden- Overview #1, from up the “hill”: Overview #2: The left column has three boxes of tomatoes, with the Tromboncino zucchini in the big trellis at the back. Continuing to the right in the front row- the next box over has the Oregon Spring tomatoes. The rest […] -A.J. We chose to simplify a little bit this year and go more with things we know “work”, are easy to process, and will see quick use if they make it as far as the freezer. We added a few new things too, including melons. The descriptions below are copied from the Tilth Plant Sale […] -A.J. EarthBox covers are sort of necessary evil. The covers that the company sells are of marginal quality, and they run around $2, each. Instead we go to Home Depot and buy a roll 10′ x 25′ x 3.5 mil black plastic. Right now a roll is $12. The finished cost per cover is 20 cents, each. […] -A.J. Each year when we grow peas I push some stakes into the ground and add trellis netting. It never looks awesome. The peas usually do well until the sunny days kick in. At that point their pots dry out quickly and the peas suffer. Attaching the trellis assembly to the salad table is an attempt […] |
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