In the 40’s today here in west Michigan. Nothing left in the garden but a tomatillo plant loaded but they are so small they will never mature. I do have a nice bowl of Sabre Ukranian tomatoes. They mature late and handle cold weather well and the green ones I picked are ripening up one by one. Have never had garden tomatoes so late in the year before. Will definitely grow them next year. I did go through my pictures recently and will post them, I really will, hopefully next week. Covered up my young paw paw trees with cones for the winter. Always sad when the garden is done. I rooted a sprig of basil and just got it in some dirt in a pot yesterday, it had a lot of roots develop quickly.
Looking forward to seeing your pictures. Do you have any of the Paw Paw Tree?
My basil is coming out of the severe cutback I gave it this fall. Little green buds all over the stem. I really thought I had killed it.
I am thinking that I might try one of the tomato plants that are cold resistant next year too.
I've never heard of these tomatoes but since I didn't know zip until several months ago, that wouldn't be unusual.
You say they mature late and handle cold weather well. Since I want to have tomatoes ripening as many months as possible and the growing season here goes until usually the end of November (I'm guessing based on years of living here), I would think these Sabre tomato would be an excellent one for a fall garden. I'll look them up to see what they look like and/or a description from you would be appreciated.
Marcella
I need to make a list of people on the gardening thread because I can’t remember all the names when I post so I leave out people and I don’t mean to do that. “All” just doesn’t do it for me.
MomwithHope: I didn’t know there were that many tomatoes from Russia and those parts of the world. I read about some of them and there is one I might could plant while it is still cold in the south here, I mean really early spring, and have ripe tomatoes earlier than any other kind. Then, before they are over, plant another kind for the hot weather, then plant another kind for the fall/colder weather. I’ll have to think about that and put some plan together.
I’m so proud of my carrot and turnip plants. I did a lousy job when I first transplanted them from under the grow lamp into limp plastic grow bags, then transplanted them into two really good hard plastic containers. If I had been them, I would have died just to show me what a lousy job I did before I got them in good containers. They are growing so fast and fine, I think I will actually have food.
At least one of the two or three Brussels Sprouts plants is really growing tall so it might produce and it’s really healthy looking. If I manage to get a stalk of food off that one, I’ll plant more next year for the fall garden.
All the strawberry plants look fine. If they all produce in the spring, I’ll have to CAN SOME. Can you believe I wrote that? I still don’t have any jars or lids and anything else I would need to put in them to can them. I’ll wait until I see if I really have grown strawberries.
I’m looking forward to starting seeds under the grow lamp for early spring. Did you get that? I can grow seeds - me, the novice, can do that since I really did it.
I may only get one squash off the big squash plant as one is all that has developed so far. There are other blossoms to open but it may be too cool for it now. That one squash tells me I can grow those squash and not lose the plant to months/borers or other deadly creatures in ground dirt. A container works for this plant. The one squash is so long you won’t believe it - haven’t measured it but I know it’s easily over 12 inches long. If every blossom had set a squash as long as they are, one could live completely on this squash and nothing else - what I’m saying is it would provide a huge amount of food and if you leave some of the squash on there, it becomes a winter squash.
The sweet potato plant still has luscious green leaves - doesn’t even suggest the leaves might die and what I read said leave it alone until the leaves die, then dig up the potatoes.
I haven’t found any dead squirrels that committed suicide because they can’t get in the net room. That is the only way I could keep those plants from the squirrels without strangling them or shooting them or catching them. They cannot get my plants.
what do your Ukrainian Sabres look like? and taste like? only one seed company appears to offer Uk. Sabres - and enthusiasts on tomato forums debate whether it is a real Uk. variety or just something the company renamed. Some companies offer plain Sabres.
Anyway they appear to have done well for you.
What do you do with the Paw Paw? We have them wild here.