Hi everyone, I know I have promised pictures, it’s been crazy busy this summer and I have managed to keep up with the garden just barely. Brought hubby home from the hospital Wednesday evening after a total knee replacement Monday. Could someone please send me some duct tape?? I need to tape him to a chair. He is driving me crazy already. He sometimes listens to what the doctors and nurses are saying and sometimes doesn’t. My first crop of romaone is all gone, waiting on the second crop. Just started picking zucchini, banana peppers, jalapenos, green onions, radishes done. I never get too many radishes, they bolt on me. Sad because I love fresh radishes. Tomatoes are going great and I have 6 varieties of russian/ukraine tomatoes I am pretty excited about. Had a question for you all on tomatillos. My first time growing and I only have one plant, it’s huge already and has had loads of flowers but no fruit develops?? Any ideas?? Thanks and hope to haev some pictures soon. I am in dinosaur mode here, camera, computer, photobucket,FR.
I have no experience with tomatillos. A couple of guesses come to mind.
Flowering fruits/veggies need pollination, and maybe they aren’t getting it-do you have plenty of bees in the morning?
Secondly they need nutrients 15 30 15 and trace elements.
Once they are ready to and start to flower, that extra Phosphorus is needed, the balanced 15 15 15 doesn’t do as well for these as it does for leafy veggies.
A lady friend of mine just had that about two weeks ago. She goes to therapy three times a week now. Don't know how long that lasts. She had to do it, the knee had her using a walker and it wasn't going to get better. She has three or four garden areas at her place, and I don't know if she is allowed to walk out there yet. Need to find out. Hope your hubby gets going walking well soon. Before that surgery was available, people just had to quit walking at some point. I think about my eyes, too. Had cataracts on both eyes removed last year. Now, just use glasses for reading - see better than I have in all my life. Before that surgery was available, I would have just gone blind. How wonderful we have surgeries available to put us back together.
I’m amazed that your hubby is feeling good enough to give you trouble so soon after a total knee replacement! I had my knee done in April, and I’m milking it for all it’s worth. To tell you the truth, I don’t remember anything about the first 5 days. Then I went to rehab, and all I remember is pain. Then home and outpatient rehab. More pain.
It’s been 3 months and I am pretty much pain pill free and pain free, as well. But, I’m not back to normal yet and don’t expect to be until I hit the 6 month mark. Some people say I shouldn’t feel entirely normal for a year.
Tomatillos are poor self-pollinators, you need multiple plants.