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Here's my Bear Creek tomato, so far, this year:



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Here's my Austin's Black Cherry tomato, this year (yes, it's PL):



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Here's my Amy's Sugar Gem tomato, so far, this year:



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Here's my Amish Rose tomato, this year, so far.



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Here's a picture of the second generation of the Ambrosia Red offtype I have. The first generation came from Gardenboy (of Tomatoville's) seed offer. The first generation was golfball-sized and yellow. After the first few fruits, it tasted great, and was extremely prolific and vigorous. It was prone to splitting at the time (although I have hope that it won't be this year).



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Here's a picture of the Amana Orange tomato that I'm growing this year, from Marsha's seed offer at TomatoJunction, this year. I've grown it from another source before, and liked it (however, it may have been crossed with a pink tomato then, and I thought I ran out of seeds).



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And I'm growing it. Here's a picture of the F3 plant. I just thinned it to one plant, today. It has shown excellent greenhouse cold-tolerance and vigor, and great vigor post-transplant. This plant is from the fruit with a very long blossom scar.



See these related posts:
• https://www.growspice.com/Mexican-Yellow-cross-tomato-F2-possibly-crossed-with-Chapman-td566.html
• https://www.tomatojunction.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1602

I've had Yellow Wonder strawberries since 2016. It's a nice variety. It fruits and grows well. Germination hasn't been as abundant or as quick as Alexandria, but it's still about as long as some tomatoes.

These are fruits I harvested, today. They're the first strawberries of the season, actually. They were much, much earlier last year. they had a lot of rain recently, but not much at all earlier in the spring.

These fruits tastes awesome, but they're a bit bitter already! Oh well. The bitterness doesn't make them unpleasant to eat, and they're not that bitter, yet. Our alpine strawberries tend to get bitter (not sour) when it gets hot and dry.

Does anyone know what vegetable ผักแขนง (as used in Thailand) refers to, in English? Wikipedia redirects to the cabbage article, but I hear it refers to a small, brussels sprouts kind of thing.

I'm trying to identify a cool grasshopper that frequents our property, although it's not the dominant kind by a long shot.

It looks a lot like, and may be, Schistocerca shoshone, the green bird grasshopper, or green valley grasshopper.

They are huge, though. They probably get over three inches long (at least up to 3.5", I believe). They are much longer than the two-striped grasshopper (which is the dominant kind).

They're beautiful creatures; they look like they have glitter glue on them, almost. I plan to take some pictures if I get the chance at an opportune time, this year.

They've been in my area since at least the 1980s or 1990s. They are much more abundant in recent years than they used to be. They are now the second-most abundant grasshopper in my garden.

We sometimes get the brown or gray ones that match the road, too, but they usually stay on the roads; they're the ones that make a sound when they fly, and have black and yellow inner wings. When mature, they usually fly whenever they jump, but they jump like regular grasshopper before their wings mature.

We used to have more kinds of grasshoppers, including blue ones that looked like the brown and gray ones.

The primary grasshopper predator in the garden seems to be my neighbors' cats, who hunt them assiduously. I've never seen birds hunting them in our yard.

Nevermind the need to take more pictures this year. Here are some pictures of one in a semi-dwarf Elberta peach tree, which pictures I took in 2015: