I have a few good tomatoes, all are green, so hope to have at least one batch before frost. Lemons are starting to turn from green to yellow.
Have a great weekend. God Bless.
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Woohoo! It’s been in the 80s the last two days and raining! Of course, now that the tomatoes finally have ripe ones on the vines, it’s too soggy to harvest them.
Had a toad in the garden this week. He and the lizards are welcome to feast all they want. Something has been digging holes.
I read somewhere that Dollar General has seed packages for 90% off.
Good afternoon. I’m clinging close to home to da;y managing my Mom’s business. Because I have POA to pay her bills and her mailing address was switched to here, etc., her health plan switched her to another group. I can’t get anyone in 2 offices to talk to me about it. Grrrrr.
82 degrees in Torrance, CA.
No answer to the Bermuda grass question.
Random other question. Do some cactuses grow really slowly? Last year I threw dragon fruit seeds in a pot and 8 sprouted. They are now about 1.5 inches tall. That’s it. Eventually, a dragon fruit tree should be perhaps 5 feet tall. At this rate of growth, I’ll be passing on this plant in my will before it ever grows up and has fruit.
Does anyone know if the date on seed packs at the store really matter. I have seen some with an end of year date 12/12 will they still be good next year.
I’ve got horseradish to harvest, but aside from that I’ve given up for this year. I’ll clean up and burn after we get a good hard freeze. Try again next year.
I’ve started making a list of foodstuffs for a kitchen scrap garden. Like don’t throw away those old onions and potatoes, but plant them. We probably know much of this but there were a couple I didn’t know about. Yes, yes, hybrid and storage and all that other stuff has to be considered but there’s nothing to lose. It’s too much to type out all the details but here’s a list of the veggies that you can replant into your garden:
Grape seeds, coffee beans, citrus seeds, sweet potato, white potato, avocado, onions, garlic, carrots, ginger, beets, rutabaga, turnip, pineapple, lettuce, sprouts, lemon grass, celery and cabbage, peppers.
Just getting hit with late-blight on the tomatoes this year. We normally would have a frost soon so it isn’t that big a deal. Luckily we harvested potatoes before it hit.
The tomatoes, red or green, get little brown spots and just rot ina day or so. Some look like they were hit with a butane flame, brownish spot with blisters around the edges.
So far the peppers don’t have it. Our first tomatoes came along in late July so we have lots of spaghetti sauce in the freezer.
Got good control of powdery mildew this year, so had quite a few acorn squash and lemon cucumbers. (love those things!!)
Unfortunately, lost many tomatoes to Late blight. It totally took me by surprise, it was almost overnight it started killing plants, and the worse thing is, it infects the fruit as well, you can’t even pick them green and let them ripen, they’re already infected. Late blight is what caused the Irish potato famine.
Surprisingly, it didn’t affect my potatoes at all, and I got about 30 pounds of various types, reds, russets, fingerlings.
My New Zealand spinach is still going very strong. Good in salads.
Peas are done. The stragglers on the vines are hardening for next years seeds, same with the blue lake pole beans, I’m gonna end up with probably a pound of dried beans for seed next year.
I am always most successful if I use seeds from plants that have done well here in the past.
On another topic, we have had swarms of humming birds at the feeders. Has anyone else had lots of hummers?
Are there those on this thread that save seeds from their own veggies, and If so can you please share tips on what to do to save them?
I just sampled some vegetable beef soup made from veggies from my first garden. It was so good!