How Does Your Garden Grow??????

Moflow said:

Nice, I haven't seen those big toms fer years

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Wife's Italian. They're from the old country and been around her family for generations.

Dwarf tamarillos starting to show some fruit, 1st time growing.

Zapallito squash, big round zucchini basically.

Yesterday's pick. 3.5 lbs San marzanos.

First paw paw from the trees in our backyard, woot! Started from seed in 2019 so more than 5 years in the making...

A little Bonchi style Habanada, just for fun.
Under the light of Spider Farmer SF600

weedstoner420 said:

First paw paw from the trees in our backyard, woot! Started from seed in 2019 so more than 5 years in the making...
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I love pawpaws. My buddy is trying to grow them up in Vermont. Crazy how you can grow such a tropical tasting fruit in the northeast.

dubekoms said:

I love pawpaws. My buddy is trying to grow them up in Vermont. Crazy how you can grow such a tropical tasting fruit in the northeast.

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Heck yeah, love me some paw paws! I wish your buddy luck! Make sure they grow at least 3 and plant them fairly close together, because they need to cross-pollinate in order to produce fruit

We went hiking today and got a decent haul of wild ones...

Purple tomatillos, made some chilli verde with some for dinner.

Pimento peppers, my nieces and granddaughter will scarf these down like an apple.

Used to grow about a 1/2 acre but with age and back problems I do tomatoes only for the house.
Morgage lifter tomatoes. Trained up a fence you can get 1000lb from 4 plants. About a 100 with a Cage.

Today and tomorrow (2-27, 2 are the best above ground planting days this moon cycle. I was working on reworking last year's potting soil and didn't actually get any seeds in the ground today. But I did take two tomatoes out of the freezer to be used for seed. The Tri L climbing tomato and my Purple Indian f3. Also have grape seed, pepper seeds and lots and lots of citrus to plant.

injinji said:

Today and tomorrow (2-27, 2 are the best above ground planting days this moon cycle. I was working on reworking last year's potting soil and didn't actually get any seeds in the ground today. But I did take two tomatoes out of the freezer to be used for seed. The Tri L climbing tomato and my Purple Indian f3. Also have grape seed, pepper seeds and lots and lots of citrus to plant.

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Nice! Do you ferment your tomato seeds, or do anything else special to get them to germinate? I’ve heard they can sometimes require extra steps, so I haven’t tried to save them yet. I transplanted some peppers yesterday, and will prob start tomatoes on st patty’s day.

injinji said:

and lots and lots of citrus to plant.

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What kind of citrus? I'm jealous I love citrus, but I can't grow it where I live.

MissinThe90’sStrains said:

Nice! Do you ferment your tomato seeds, or do anything else special to get them to germinate? I’ve heard they can sometimes require extra steps, so I haven’t tried to save them yet. I transplanted some peppers yesterday, and will prob start tomatoes on st patty’s day.

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I just put them in trays of soil for planting. I only add water. I saved seeds, but toward the end of last season I let some tomatoes got too ripe and froze several of them for planting. Two of those were the ones I used for planting on Friday. The climbing (tri L I think) tomato and the Purple Indian, both f2's.

Also planted Mammoth Jalapeno f4's, Cayenne f2's and Bell f2's from peppers my cousin grew. And grape seed.

Funkentelechy said:

What kind of citrus? I'm jealous I love citrus, but I can't grow it where I live.

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I have a Chinese orange that is pretty cold resistant. The old guy who gave it to me said it was outlawed because of the cold resistance. (if you could grow juice oranges in Georgia, think what would happen to the Florida juice market) And I have a tangerine that has made it through several cold years. It's really too seedy for easy eating. And it pretty darn tart too. I planted seeds from both of those. And Sister's friend has fruit trees at her house, a satsuma and a grapefruit and I planted each of those. But Cousin Gidget had some of the grapefruit seed too, and she planted hers sooner. She sent me three grapefruit trees yesterday, about four or five inches tall.

I have seeds from Pomelo, pink grapefruit, a different grapefruit, and a different satsuma, but those seeds were at the riverhouse, and by the time I got down there Friday night, I decided they could wait for the next good day.

I lose a lot of citrus trees. I always plant a bunch, and when we do have really bad cold, it kills the young ones, even if you cover them up. And they will die if you forget to water them when the rainy season stops. I need to plant less and take better care of them until they are old enough to tough it out on their own.