Posted on 08/05/2023 6:43:11 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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I am glad you were at least able to harvest some red tomatoes in 2020. I hope you can this year.
Variety review. Pictures of Nile Radish from Bakers Creek described as a heat tolerant summer type. I started these in Early July. They grew in one of the hottest periods of the KS summer, usually 90F+. I made certain they received consistent watering. They received sun for about 7 to 8 hours a day. I was surprised that they are not pithy and were even textured! They were peppery, which you would expect from a summer variety.
Summer Garden pictures: Tomatoes, Shishito peppers, and walls of Pole Beans:
Burpee Long keeper Tomatoes in cages (indeterminate so I will probably need to "stop" them.) , cucumbers on trellises.
!! I found this discussion on long keeper tomatoes:
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2245656/long-keeper-tomatoes ralleia
15 years ago
"I found the article on long keeper tomatoes: It was an Organic Gardening article Sept/Oct 1997 that rated long-keeping tomatoes on taste. "
Best overall: Dwarf gold treasure (source: Peters)
Best red (tie): Sheriff (source: Johnny's) and Winter Red (source: Burpee)
2nd best overall: Mountain Gold (source: Peters)
2nd best red: Flavor More (source: Nichols)
Comments about the Dwarf gold treasure included best tasting with "very nice flavor and tangy to boot" and the long-distance winner, with some fruits lasting and ripening into February.
The reviewers didn't have anything overly exciting to say about Mountain gold--just that it had long shelf life and had tomato flavor.
The reds had overall good flavor reviews.
Overall the reviewers marvelled at how long all these tomatoes kept while still tasting like tomatoes."
I bought a 4.00 phalaenopsis orchid at Walmart this spring. New growth on two stalks.
Red Kuri squash that decided to grow on a vine that was scooting around in my wall of pole beans!
It was about 6 feet off the ground so I am giving it some additional support until the skin has hardened and I can safely pick it!
Anyone here try electroculture gardening? Asking for someone else, honestly. Wrapping copper wire around a wooden rod and putting it in the soil to stimulate growth.
I braved the heat & humidity yesterday to mow from about 1:30 to 3:30, after checking the radar & seeing T-storms popping up to the west. We have company coming at 10 this morning & things around the house and garden were pretty ‘shaggy’ looking. By the time I finished, there were some dark clouds showing up. What we got was a pretty big T-storm with severe storm/flash flood warnings - the severe storm line was fairly thin, but red on radar when it came through and then there was a large area of rain following behind. The end result was an inch of rain in the gauge! For August, that’s really good.
The day I’ve been FEARING is at hand. The peaches are ripe - and the tree is so over-loaded that we have it braced up in spots!
I just ate one and it was delicious! One of the best things about Summer, actually. :)
I’m putting out an ‘All Peach Bulletin’ to my neighbors to come pick what they want, LOL!
Peaches are one of my favorite fruits. We had an old peach tree on our place, but it finally ‘bit the dust’some years ago. :-(
Peach & cherry pies are my favorites, along with peach preserves.
Good morning to you as well. Crops are doing ok. When I inspected the green bean plants discovered I could pick a handful. So nice and tasty fresh off the plant. Tomatoes doing well and have recovered nicely from the hot spell we had. Counted more than a dozen tiny tomatoes in various stages of growth. Looking forward to harvesting them. Yummy!
Good Morning!
Fresh Green beans right off the vine are so tasty! :-)
It’s been another blustery week here in Central Missouri. Rain, rain, and more rain. Lots of wind. Big mess but no expensive damage.
I dug the last of the Yukon Gold spuds yesterday. Should have done it sooner. Lots of nice taters half eaten by vermin.
Pole beans are flourishing. Been picking every third day. Got two gallons on Saturday.
The 2nd planting of sweet corn is up ~5” tall. With a bit of luck it will be ready to harvest before we get a hard freeze.
I didn’t plant any zucchini in the spring so I’m thinking that I should stick some seeds in the dirt for a fall crop. No zucchini means none of Mrs. Augie’s zucchini bread during the winter and that just won’t do!
Cukes are done. Spaghetti squash are junk. Vermin chewed all of the Ambrosia cantaloupes. Every tomato that was past the breaker stage exploded from all the rain that we’ve had lately. I loaded the wheelbarrow yesterday and gave them all to the chickens.
I pulled all of the torn up plastic film off of the hoop house yesterday. I’ll wait until the weather cools a bit before installing a new piece.
I’m going to take some cuttings from a couple tomato plants after work today and see if I can get some new ones going for the fall.
A few of the cuttings I took from my Arkansas Black apple tree after the wind broke it off are starting to show signs of root nodule growth. A buddy of mine has a mature Arkansas Black in his orchard and is doing an air layer process on a couple of small branches so if my cuttings all fail to root I’ve got a backup plan that doesn’t involve sending money to Stark Bros.
First Peach Pie baked! I have ingredients prepped for the next one to go in.
One of the guys going up to Bear Camp this weekend is stopping by to take some peaches up to camp. Hopefully he won’t eat them ALL in the truck on the 6 hour ride north, LOL!
The neighbor boys (16, twins - so handsome and getting SO grown up now!) are bringing my trash/recycling cans back to me later today and I’ll let them pick all they want, too.
I’m finding some are perfectly ripe and then some are another day or so out, so it’s not going to be as awful as I thought. ;)
M. No, I have not. It does not sound like something I would try. (Sounds like something that might kill off the bacteria and life in your soil to be honest!)
The tan momma doe is 100% New Zealand Kiko. The rest are Boer/Kiko mix in varying percentages. The big buck that died was 7/8 Boer, 1/8 Kiko. His son is closer to 50/50 so any kids he fathers will be even more Kiko. The Kiko are supposed to be the lowest maintenance meat goat due to the original breed creators having used a wild mountain goat as one of the grandparents.
New Zealand is also a temperate climate as opposed to Africa where the Boer was developed. Boers in temperate climates like where I am tend to have worm and hoof issues. If you put all that effort into maintenance, they are faster weight gainers than Kiko.
I’m going for a 100% maintenance free herd so naturally, there have been losses. Started with three, made it up to six and then back down to three before these two kids. Funny thing is that the ones who died, looked perfectly healthy. Parasite issues will make them lose weight and get weak.
Picked up $130 worth of lumber yesterday for their new shed. I already have roofing/siding to wrap it in. I’m going to get more cattle panels and fence the shed in. It will be open most of the time for now but I want to be able to close it up on occasion and feed them some yummy sweet feed so get friendlier with them.
As of now, they’re borderline wild goats who hang out here at night. Also need to get a close look at the kids to see if either or both are male before they get too old for banding. If males, I’ll need to get a hold of them to band them so the enclosure and feed will help with that.
I bury dead goats in sawdust and throw a tarp over it. Within a few months, clean bones is what’s left. The tarp is mostly to keep the chicken from digging them up.
Plastic tanks that had food ingredients, namely Soy Lecithin. I wash them out with biodegradable de-greaser because bulk Soy Lecithin is basically an oil. The de-greaser is low suds so it rinses out easily.
No canning. That would be quite a chore with mainly cherry tomatoes. I’ll eat what I can and give the rest away.
Yep, any vine will grow on twine. I might use cattle panels for anything that doesn’t get too tall. I have two Dragon’s Tongue pole bean plants that I ran up one string and are now running down the horizontal support chain that the strings hang from.
I grew most tomatoes from seed but did grab four plants from Lowes that were on sale. Regular price was $7.99 per plant but they put all the runts on a table 4 for $12. They’re later than my seed grown but doing fine and all have green fruit on them now. Early Girl, Cherokee Purple, Brandywine and Black Cherry.
“I’ve got a backup plan that doesn’t involve sending money to Stark Bros...”
I used to crack up when people would ask me for grafting supplies at my garden center. Yeah. Sure. I’m in the business of SELLING you fruit trees, NOT in helping you make your own for FREE! ;)
I was polite and professional. My standard response was, ‘We have so FEW requests for those items that we don’t carry them. Now, let me tell you all about this latest and greatest apple tree.’ ;)
Boer goats have the same Roman nose as the Nubian so they do look similar.
Boer
Nubian
The Kikos have a dished nose as do most breeds.
Thanks I’ll pass it along.
I've never had a problem with anything eating my taters, including some I find the next year. Still perfectly good eating after 8-9 months in the ground too. I didn't plant any this year but had three volunteers pop up from tubers left in the ground last year. I've got some store bought Yukons starting to sprout and I've got some leftover compost from the truck load I bought. Might just put them together and try for some Fall taters.
We lost electric a few times over the past few weeks. Looking at the co-op outage map and it's been anywhere from 10-20% outage on every storm. Thousands out.
Creeks that were down to trickles are back up to a good flow. It wasn't until the last rain that I had tomatoes split.
Mid 70s right now so I guess I'll go build a goat shed.
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