Tomatoes are reacting nicely to me pinching off the blossoms and all of them are in the rapid growth phase. I have to print for about a half hour every day to keep up.
Put some bell pepper starts in the ground today (14) have another 10 I have to make a new bed for or put in pots. Dropped some random unknown volunteer tomatoes in the ground. Trying to decide if I call the bed full of unknown volunteers Shelter Island or the Island of Misfit Toys.
Anyone grown shishito peppers before? I have a dozen starts almost ready to go in the ground/pots.
That should be the last of my starts.
Blueberry plants have a bunch of berrys that should be ripe in a few weeks.
Rose bushes putting out blooms....and I am doing the annual battle to beat back blackberry bushes.
Going out tonite to do some street photography.
Last night a dude was stabbed....onenof my officers saved his life with a tourniquet.
I am a fairly new gardener. Please enlighten me on the pros and cons of pinching off the blossoms (tomato or any plants). I thought they needed the blossoms.
“Island of Misfit Toys.” Love that!
I haven’t had to do it at my ‘new’ (Est. 1900) farm, but at my ‘old’ farm (Est. 1906) when I was seriously growing food to feed three adults and three teen boys, I would have a ‘Whatever’ garden from time to time.
‘Whatever’ seeds were leftover from the previous years got planted. And it was usually successful...though you never really knew what you were going to get. ;)
TEFKaB: I have one Shishito that I bought to plant. Have never tried it so this year will be the first! Good thing its easy to just wash and freeze all those bell peppers!
How many tomatoes do you have? I have 13. I took off the first branches up to 10-12” (straw mulch underneath) and left the flowers alone on the premise that I need to get as many growing before it gets so hot and humid that its difficult for the flowers to pollinate. (Thats a problem here every year.)
Enjoy your berries! One of the best things about summer!
Shishito peppers are the BEST, my favorite pepper. We grew 3 bushes last year and we were swimming in them.