What's happening with your garden?

[razyrsharpe]

got some zucchini blossoms today...and i noticed that my cherry hot peppers have two pods, while my hole mole peppers are also showing pods!

i strung up stakes and string for my purple hulled peas (cow peas).

[Daphne]

I got everything planted last night. I ran out of green bean seeds...didn't buy enough....so I had to make a stop at the farm supply store on the way home from work. I was dropping and covering seeds while it was sprinkling but I wanted to get them in before it rains harder.

The only thing I am wondering about was that the seeds I bought today are a different color than the ones I already planted! The ones yesterday were white. the package said bush beans. The bean seeds I got today are brown with some striping. I told the guy at the feed store what I wanted but when I got them home and opened up the pouch, I saw that they were different. I hope they are green beans!

[damethod]

My tomato plants are producing their last crop. I've trimmed all dried parts and excess leaves from them so they can concentrate on the fruits.

I just planted two pepper plants, jalapeno and red bell pepper. The bell already has a full sized pepper on it, just waiting until it turns red.

My raspberry and blackberry plants are both growing at a ridiculous rate.

All of my herbs have done well except the cilantro. It went into seed far too quickly. I am going to replant some more in an area of my yard where it only receives about 25% sun. The basil, parsley, thyme, rosemary, greek oregano, mint(in a container), thai basil, lemon basil, and culantro are all coming along well.

This was my first year planting any herbs and I've learned plenty. Thanks for all the help!

[opabinia51]

Been so darn cold here lately that I haven't been able to do much! But, I have turned all my cover crops into the soil, planted a few tomatoes plants (cross my fingers), planted some peas and beans, Started 128 + tomatoe plants in my home plus some eggplants, and some other good stuff as well.

Right now, I'm wishing for February to go away and for May to come back to us.

[Cuke]

I just checked my garden about 20 minutes ago and now there's around 13 cucumber plants coming up.The dill is much taller,they're around 2 inches now.Tomatoes will be transplanted Thursday since it's going to rain tomorrow.I'm going to buy already started tomatoes from a local grocery store that I've had good luck with so far.

[Reptilicus]

I've gotten a good bit going on now. I've figured out how to get grass to grow well. Decide to make a garden and not want grass in that particular area. It'll grow beyond belief.

I've been behind schedule on most things and trying to catch up at this point. Here's some pictures of the garden taken last nite.

I tied up the tomato plants and layed out some soaker hoses. This weekend I will lay out some newspaper and layer it with pine straw to choke out the grass and weeds.









My onions have made seed so I'll pull them up this weekend and plant something in their place...



Hey I have tomatos!

[elementfiftyfour]

Been so darn cold here lately that I haven't been able to do much! But, I have turned all my cover crops into the soil, planted a few tomatoes plants (cross my fingers), planted some peas and beans, Started 128 + tomatoe plants in my home plus some eggplants, and some other good stuff as well.

Right now, I'm wishing for February to go away and for May to come back to us.

128+ tomato plants?

Do you not expect them all to grow or do you sell the procuce at a market or something?

[opabinia51]

I will grow a lot of them, some are going to friends, a few to a few places that I am landscaping. But, mainly for tomatoes sauce in the fall. I have about 8 Lemon Boys and I just like to eat those like plums.

[Daphne]

Wow! That is a lot of tomatoes! I only planted 4 this year. The summers get so hot here that I couldn't afford the water bills to keep too many. I just want to get enough to can a batch of salsa and a batch of spaghetti sauce. I'm thinking about sneaking in a few Roma tomato plants somewhere....just not sure where yet!

[opabinia51]

I've also planted 9 tomatoe plants and have 9 more out front that I bought

[elementfiftyfour]

I have been told to expect about 90 -100 tomatoes from each healthy plant. So from my nine plants I expect close to 900 tomatoes. I don't know what you could possibly do with 12000 tomatoes.

Although i guess up in BC you probably don't get the bounty that comes with living down in the hot and humid south.

[Charlie MV]

Well

[Daphne]

Well, here in SC we've got 16 plants and we're gonna eat them because we're ...well hungry from all that work in the garden.

LOL! Sounds like a good plan to me!

[opabinia51]

With smaller varieties of tomatoes like Sweet 100 and sweet 1000000, Hawiian Currant (these things are amazing, literally the size of a currant but, they just explode with flavour!), chadwick's cherry and so on I can expect up to a hundred tomatoes per plant but, with larger varieties like Russian Black, Cherokee purple, beefmaster and so on the yields are considerably less. If I did get a hundred tomates from each plant, I would be very happy though.


A few years ago I supplied my friends wedding with tomatoes but, this year mainly for sauce and sauces.

Of course, I'll be suckering like mad this year. That will be interesting! I guess the old arthritis will be getting really bad in the hands this year.


There is this spot up North where we get literally a hundred prawns per pull of the prawn trap per fishing license and we get to invent a myriad of tomatoe recipes. A few years ago I invented this lovely recipe with black tomatoes:

1 black tomatoe
3 cloves crushed and sliced garlic
1 chopped onion
fresh basil
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
salt and pepper to taste
Truffle Oil (Optional)
Several pounds of prawns or other shellfish (shrimp, crab, lobster and so on)

Add a few tbspoons of olive oil to a pan on medium low heat and season with salt and pepper. Sautee garlic and onions until transluscent, add chopped tomatoes and simmer on low heat until a sauce forms. Add a bit more olive oil .

Add the prawns and after they have cooked for a few seconds garnish with basil and cook for a couple more minutes.

Serve with Red Thai or brown Rice or Quinoa (Quinoa is loaded with nutrients)

[Reptilicus]

128 plants! I thought my 27 were overkill. Well that makes me want to plant some more. I'll have the room as soon as the onions come out.

I guess I can still find some plants out. I should plant some roma or heilooms one day.

is it true you can get 90-100 out of one plant? I'd never thought about keep a count on how many I grow.

I know I grew a good bit last year by accident.. I mean with my lack of knowledge it wasn't anything done on my part.