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Cheryl Isaak · 14-07-2010, 12:56 PM posted to rec.gardens,rec.gardens.edible

On 7/12/10 1:44 PM, in article
, "Billy"
wrote:

In article ,
Cheryl Isaak wrote:

Ok - I had my first, maybe not quite ripe, cherry tomato - a Rosalita
(pink), a bit tart, but just a few more days and I'll have ripe ones for
sure. The rest of the cherry tomatoes are few weeks away I think.

Speaking of tomatoes, my understanding was that determinant tomatoes all
ripped at the same time, but I have a Glacier with ripe tomatoes and
just set, green fruit!? Is this another urban legend biting the dust, or
is this just something odd about Glacier?

Most of my tomatoes have at least green fruit, except for the 90 day
ones.

Just setting out my second wave of lettuce, and need to start a third,
along with cabbage, kale, and broccoli.

Next year, I want to add lettuce to my flower beds - edible foliage!

While dumping the weeds in the compost, I found the first of the wild
blackberries. YUM - a really treat in yesterday's heat.

I'm still dividing, marking to remove and otherwise, moving plants around.
And my mulch - a trade of 4 yards for about 40 mature clumps of daylilies,
is slowing making my paths a treat again.
Lucky you, my tomatoes are closing together, and the path between the
peppers and potatoes are tight enough that is is go slow or break
branches, and I have to keep looking for the paving stones among the
mustard, buckwheat, and clover.

Well, I am moving lots of "good weeds" out of the paths and it to new homes.

I have some Monarda didyma sitting in a large pots, who have been up and
doing nothing for a couple of months. I'll be moving it to a bed as soon
as I get the potatoes out of it (the bed).
I've found with my various Monarda that they will "sleep" for a year or two
and then be wonderful.

Cheryl
Hoping for more rain in Southern NH

Hoping for some 90?F days to goose the garden along.

I've had plenty!