This appears to be a banner year
for growing things. Disease is practically if not nonexistent! The insect world seem to be in near perfect
balance!
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| Anananas Noir |
I hope everyone else's gardens are in the same harmony as mine!
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| Chocolate Cherry |
I am almost finished with my second new garden bed, hoping it turns out as successful as the first, where after a month, ten of my tomatoes are higher than the fence!
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| Golden Rave |
This year almost by insanity, ;-P , I am growing 26 different kinds of tomatoes! The reason for diversity is in case something fails you can yank it without feeling a loss!
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| Black Cherry (Screaming Pick Me, Pick Me! Eat Me!) |
I also had many old seeds I did not think would germinate, and traded some friends for some varieties I never had!
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| Sun Gold |
Cucumbers are being picked everyday!
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Armenian Yard Long (picked early at a foot)
Lemon Cucumbers |
Some eaten fresh some are made into refrigerator pickles!
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| Lemon Cucumber |
My fig tree is rockin' and with this last rain I think "Figgy Heaven" is just days away!
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| Figs |
Plums look great too!
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| Redheart Plums |
First year my Redheart will crop!
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| Redheart Plums |
I had a great year with onions too and they were planted late in the spring!
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| Sweet and Red Onions |
My Asparagus was not as pretty as in past years!
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| Purple Passion Asparagus (from a few years ago) |
I
had some minor problems with asparagus beetles, but was able to
keep it in check without using any pesticides through the harvest which
ended in the end of May. Now I believe I have some beneficial bugs coming to the rescue!
I will do a post about good bugs and bad bugs
at another time!
Here is a list of the tomatoes I am growing this year!
Tomatoes
2012
Heirlooms:
1) Chocolate Cherry
2) Black Cherry
3) Black Krim
4) Purple Russian
5) Ananas Noire (Black Pineapple)
6) Djena Lee's Golden Girl
7) Yellow Pear
8) Green Grape
9) Giant Belgium
10) Red Currant
11) Yellow Currant
12) Litchi (Thorny cherry tomato)
13) Pearly Pink
14) Black Mauri (Black Moor)
15) Snowberry
16) White Tomesol
17) Purple Cherokee
Hybrids:
18) Raad Red
19) Black Velvet
20) First Light
21) Early Goliath
22) Sunny Goliath
23) Zebra Cherry (Black Zebra)
24) Sun Gold
25) Golden Rave
26) Granny Smith
