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by Radishrain
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Good thing I harvested the ripe tomatoes earlier today, because it's raining, now! It often gets wet at the end of the season here. (It's supposed to freeze on Tuesday: read Wednesday morning.)
There's nothing quite like harvesting tomatoes in the cold and rain.
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Here are some Sweet Orange Cherry tomatoes that I harvested, today. They're nice. It's an early, prolific, hardy variety with good taste. It's somewhat larger than my Galapagos Island. I had it in tough soil, this year, unamended, unfertilized. I also grew it in 2017, and 2016. I gave my plant t...read more
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by Radishrain
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The Sausage tomato is a favorite of mine. It produces large paste tomatoes in abundance. Sausage seems to be able to handle heat and drought well.
Here's a picture that includes some of mine (they ripen red, but the picture makes them look pink). Some or all of these Sausage tomatoes might be...read more
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This thread is for the Napoli tomato. It's a red paste (the picture makes it look pink) with similarities in production and fruit size to the Romas we grew in 2014. Due to its production, I want to grow it again.
Offsite articles:
• Tatiana's TOMATObase
Vendors:
• Timeless-Tomatoes....read more
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This thread is for the Palestinian tomato. It's wispy, fairly large and apparently, a red oxheart. The picture makes it look pink, though. The bottom of the plant smelled super good, like awesome BBQ sauce.
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This thread is for the Gilbertie tomato.
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The HL volunteer in the picture (the orange tomato) is the tomato at hand here. I transplanted a Holyland tomato there in the spring, but it died. Another tomato sprouted, which I thought might be Holyland. I let it grow, and it produced this orange fruit, which I believe ripened a super lon...read more
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This thread is for the Sheboygan tomato. Here's a picture that includes some of its fruits. Note that everything in the picture looks pinker than it appears. Sheboygan is the only pink paste here. Gilbertie isn't fully ripe, but it's on its way from being orange-ish red to red. Holyland and Napo...read more
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by Radishrain
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So, I tasted a Brandy Boy F1 tomato, today—a large, pink fruit. It had a taste similar to my Brandy Boy cross C plant's fruit, this year (the one that is almost a multiflora), but it's a little different.
It was firmly attached to the vine much like my Brandy Boy cross F1 was in 2018; so, the...read more
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by Radishrain
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My epazote has been in the process of going to seed for a little while now, but oh wow, the number of seeds that could be developing on my one plant is immense! It's a lot more than lambsquarter looks like it produces! I hope they ripen in time! That would be nice to have epazote weeds growing a...read more
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I posted the following on our old forum on 18 Jun 2019:
This year, I've been seeing a lot of what I think are painted lady butterflies.
When I was a child, I used to see what appeared to be common leopard butterflies fairly often, but I don't recall seeing any in recent years.
I saw mo...read more
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by Radishrain
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We had plenty of wasps earlier in the season, this year, but I haven't seen many since! Usually they're all over the place for basically the whole growing season.
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by Radishrain
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I'm still trying to figure this one out. Raspberries contain a lot of useful chemicals.
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by Radishrain
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My web searches told me that anthocyanins made strawberries red. I was surprised at that (since anthocyanins make things purple and ultra violet, and strawberries are not purple), but yeah; maybe there are more kinds of anthocyanins.
I would have guessed that lycopene made them red.
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I'd think lycopene would make red peppers red, since it makes red tomatoes red, and peppers and tomatoes are in the same family. However websites give conflicting information. One sight says red peppers are one of the fruits that do not contain lycopene, but some other sites say they do.
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by Radishrain
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I found this article that said a couple things that really stuck out to me. It talked about how zeaxanthin helps filter out blue light from the eyes, and how raspberries can protect the eyes from UV damage. As someone with light sensitivity who wears blue-blocking glasses and such at times, and ...read more
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by Radishrain
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I harvested a few watermelons today. There are probably plenty more ready to be picked. One of them was one of my heretofore unharvested unlabeled watermelons. It looks like a winter watermelon, which surprised me a bit, as I thought I had labeled them all. I don't think it's King Winter or Sant...read more
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I harvested about 45lbs of West India burr gherkins. They weighed in at 49lbs, but that was including the bowls and leaves, and I was optimistic where the scale was ambiguous.
Closer pictures:
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by Radishrain
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I transplanted my Tresca strawberry plants (all in the same spot), today (Saturday). they possibly had a disease (maybe rust, by the look of it); so, I put them by the other diseased strawberries. My hope is either that it overcomes the disease or that it produces fruit before it dies (so I can ...read more
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by Radishrain
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I know I'm not a cat, but I've taken to drinking milk from a bowl (no, not lapping it up, but drinking as if it were a cup). You're probably wondering why:
• Well, one of those reasons is that I dip my peanut butter sandwiches in milk, and it's a whole lot easier to do that in a bowl than in ...read more
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by Radishrain
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https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/wild-cucumber/
I thought the above link was insightful. It tells of the many things they can do with this plant in Africa. Apparently, they eat the leaves, too!
Just as a note, although the fruits are spiky, the plants themselves are more likely to scrat...read more
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Here is my first ripe fruit from my Brandy Boy F10 plant (which plant had a very late start). The other two fruits are partially ripe (which is to say, ripe enough to save seeds). The ripe fruit has some concentric cracking and the beginnings of radial cracking, but the fruit is quite firm, and ...read more
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Here's the actual list of tomatoes that I planted (I enumerated them on 3 April 2020, but I've edited some more in); there are about 93 kinds (a few have two plants each, including Carbon, Ovita, Pink Cheeks, Purple Calabash, and Galapagos Island, but Napoli has 4, Marion has 6 or 7, and Tart Br...read more
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by Radishrain
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My Aji Ammarillo pepper plant, which is extremely tall (without needing support as yet) is finally setting a bunch of peppers! I'm happy.
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by Radishrain
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Here's today's Jalapeno harvest. Most are Randy Sine's Evil Jalapenos (those big ones on top are probably a cross). Some are Farmer's Jalapenos (not much netting; so, maybe it's a cross, too); they're the light green ones on the left. Some are just regular Jalapenos (on the far left; the short, ...read more
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