Thread: In the Garden 2018

They've got a ways to go but there are Roma Tomatoes at the Boars Nest.

Right now these are about the size of the regular grape tomatoes you see in the grocery store/maybe a bit smaller.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

They've got a ways to go but there are Roma Tomatoes at the Boars Nest.

Right now these are about the size of the regular grape tomatoes you see in the grocery store/maybe a bit smaller.

My Romas are going nuts. One stalk had 4 fruit hanging from it!

Rutgers Heirlooms are producing well too but not at the same rate. Two of them are approaching 6' tall with all the rain we've had. I had to lengthen the stakes yesterday.

hehehe I hadn't thought about counting but I just went out and checked my 'plant' as I only have one tomato plant and it's in a container and I have 6 fruits growing. I didn't bother counting the blooms but there's a lot of them.

As far as height goes mine is only about 2 ft and that's a good thing.

Unwritten North Idaho Rule.

Never put plants in the garden until June 1st

We shall see what survived last weeks Nighttime drops

Same rule up here Glen.
Might get lucky some years, but as a rule.

I got cocky Mike

Been staying on the boat every weekend since May 5th some 80° weather around the 15th Many of us up here were thinking a long summer

The worst part is that we didn't have a "Killing Frost" we had rain and cold nights at the same time

Looks like Shan's Pumpkins might have survived, but my Beans and Romas are looking pretty wilted

An older gentleman lived across the street from me when I first moved to Walla Walla and he was quite the gardener, hardly ever bought any produce from the store, he and his wife had always had a big garden and used fresh and canned a ton.

Anyway even here in the WW Valley he would never put his tomato sets out until I believe the 26th of May as that was the last recorded killing frost.

I hope what you've already put out can struggle by and recoup.

In Ontario the rule of thumb says prep your soil how you want, but don’t plant until after the May 24 weekend. WHen I lived in Calgary, that rule was shot, because it could snow in June or July. Calgarians import their tomatoes or grow them indoors.

Couple pix of my Romas...

Wish I could figure out why these are rotated here and not on my laptop.

This could be posted in other threads but since what my youngest daughter and I were working on came from my 'Garden' I thought it would be appropriate to post here.

My little strawberry patch has slowed down and I've been getting berries the size of my thumb but quite a few the size of my little finger nail. However all have had good flavor.

My daughter wanted to make jam but since she has to travel to get from her home a few miles away to the Boars Nest and her funds are low it was up to me to do the manual labor of picking the berries, rinsing them, then drying a bit and removing the stems then freezing the berries (anyone else think that I'm getting the raw end of the deal here)

Anyway the recipe she wanted to use called for approximatley 3 Lbs of berries and I'd managed to come up with 3.25#'s and there wasn't another ripe berry in sight in the patch.

Today after a great, really great joint effort we ended up with TEN 1/2 pints and TWO 1/4 pints of jam. Every jar sealed except one of the 1/4 pints so it's in the frig but before it went in I just had to have a sample.

All I'll say is that I haven't had strawberry jam that tasted like that since my mom and dad used to can their own and I think that the two of them would be very pleased with their son's and grand daughter's efforts!



I'd put the jar that hadn't sealed and I'd sampled in the frig before I took this pic;



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