Thread: In the Garden 2017

These are bhut something( Lol, I can't remember I have done so many) from India. Not Jalokia but from the people that won a world record(from the U.K.). Very,very hot but with a good flavor. The Jalokia was not as flavorful and produced very little as I learned they needed high temps(90-110)which I could not provide living in the Bay Area. The tall ones are Chile Amarillo from Mexico and are almost perfect, as they produce a lot and are very flavorful.
French pole fancy green beans, great producers and very tastey. I highly recomend these, once you grow these you will find out that the store bought ones are no good.
Finally the tomatoes, I have tried eazy over fifty virieties I lost count about five years ago and then I had tried fifty. These are my favorite for taste and production(taste first, production second). They are sun gold and supersweet 1oo(not sweet 100 or sweet million which are close relatives), what what makes them special is that they are hybrids and I found that heirlooms always win. With medium and full size tomatoes heirlooms always and I mean not even close. Hope this helps someone.

Thank You,
Israel

I was doing some gardening today and remembered I needed to feed my worms and was pleasantly surprised when I found this,
The yellow fungi is a good indicator that things are going good(yellow,orange,reddish,purpple are excellent indicators too) white is pretty good but brown and black are a little iffy. Some are good but some are not to good to very bad. So be carefull if you see the darker ones. Another good indicator is when the top looks like used coffee grounds. That usually means the castings(worm poop) is ready for harvest. Leave at least a quarter of the castings unmolested and fill the rest with the best organic compost you can get your hands on. They will be litterally a thousand to a million times better(aerobic microorganisms)
These are my worm bins made of recycled redwwod fenceing. I never buy plant food and have very high producing raised beds.

Finally, something is actually growing!

Just a couple of things yesterday

Cherry tomatoes are blooming.

Our first tomato.

Not large but had great flavor.

Originally Posted by rolodave

Our first tomato.

Not large but had great flavor.

You have to copy fishermen and better proportion your photos. That's HUGE!

Originally Posted by 32t

You have to copy fishermen and better proportion your photos. That's HUGE!

We split it and each enjoyed one great bite. We have two others that are getting larger. Rest of the plants are still in bloom.

The tomatoe plants are coming along good. I harvested a carrot tonight, will probably pull the rest this weekend. The darn squirrels dug up my spinach and Swiss chard.

Things are coming along finally.
Green beans are forming, pepper plants blooming, and my single cherry tomato plant has turned into a monster covered in fruit.