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Default Just some garden talk

T wrote:
Hi All,

Well, since doing this for eight years or so, this is
the first time I have feral tomato plants growing
in my garden. I noticed after it got hot in August,
they popped up. I presume they are sweet 100's, but
I only have one small green tomato so far. I am
dying of curiosity.

Hmmmm. Hot and August for them to pop up. This would be why
purchasing them from a green house is so popular.


yeah, unless you have a near semi-tropical season
it can be hard to get much off feral tomatoes. around
here it happens once in a while, but i normally just
turn them into worm food as i don't want yet more
plants to weed around or interfering with the neighboring
plants.


On the California (Anaheim) pepper front, last year a got
about ten. Max was about three inches. This year, I have
a bumper crop. And big ones too!

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The tiles are six inch squares.


look great!


I made chili and crispy Ratatouille out of them.

Chili:

1 bottle of organic tomatoes (Italy). (Canned tomatoes
are an abomination)
2 large California chili peppers diced (mine)
2 lb grass fed hamburger (down the street)
a bunch of onions pulled green, stems and all (mine).
diced t about a cup and a half
garlic diced, about five small cloves (mine)
Oregano flakes (grocery store)

You simmer down the tomatoes and peppers by themselves
before adding the rest of the ingredients.,

Yum!!!!


i have never put oregano into chili.


And I found I like raw zucchini with my home made blue
cheese dressing (let me know if anyone wants the recipe).


i have eaten it plain like cucumbers before but
we don't grow it here as we have way too many
cucumbers to contend with as it is.

i think we've hauled about 800lbs of cucumbers in
so far this season. and that is a very conservative
guesstimate. we have to pick again today along with
the tomatoes.


And it looks like I am starting to get some roots on
my Choke Berry clipping. And right where I cut off
the leaves, as Songbird predicted.


is it in water or in potting soil?


And I have a jungle of Sweet 100's that taste like
candy. Tried growing other cherries, but they take to
long to harvest (zone 6c is really short), have
low yields, and to be quite frank, they don't taste
all that nice either. This year only sweet 100's.
I RESISTED TEMPTATION !!!


i've liked the yellow ones we've grown here before
but no cherry tomatoes this season. just the beefsteaks.


Life is good!

:-)





songbird