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How does your garden grow?

rareboy said:
As for the rest? Everyone who comes to visit ends up taking home whatever there is too much of for the next month.
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Have you thought about setting up a farm-to-table thing for your fellow Jubbers?
 
rareboy said:
Sure.

Except I would need export permits for everyone but Neil!
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Dammit! What was NAFTA even for, if not for rareboy to send his delicious produce to his neighbor friends south of the border???
 
^I may be cynical, but I assume the purpose of NAFTA was to make the super rich and corporations happy. They, after all, matter more than us mere peasants.
 
Well, here we are.

Working our way through the Chard. The Tomatoes are almost done. A few hills of potatoes left and then Kale.

Everything else is done and a lot of the garden now weeded and worked over for the winter.
 
My tomato plant did surprisingly well. Not well enough to be practical, of course, but I've gotten several tomatoes off of it, which is better than some years. I think there were years I got zero tomatoes. I should get at least a couple of more tomatoes that are nearly ripe. There are also a bunch of green tomatoes.

Maybe next year I should make a more serious effort. Since I grow tomatoes in pots, I could even get the plant started before the risk of frost ends, since the pot could be moved someplace on cold nights where it won't get so cold the plant dies. We'll see. That's several months away, and first we have to somehow survive winter.
 
We would try to grow cherry tomatoes on the terrace in pots...and then watch the chipmunks dine on them when they were ripe :rotflmao:

The weirdest thing this year is that we had no tomato worms and no potato bugs.

We don't use insecticides or any kind of poisons...so it kind of worries me that the insects are missing.
 
Speaking of insects, I saw and killed my first spotted lanternfly today.

They've been around for -- what? two or three years now? -- and they only just seem to have arrived on my block.
 
hmmm. Not a problem here.

So I can harvest most of the jalapeno peppers now and we only have a few chard plants remaining. Still waiting for that frost for the kale.

And still have two hills of potatoes. Had a meal of the fingerlings last night.....mmmm.

The big project is putting the garden next to the house to bed.

This year I have hired gardening help. My job was to turn over about 300 sf of what used to be vegetable beds in order to plant another 500 bulbs for Spring that my partner bought me as a surprise gift.

The gardens ran totally out of control this year.
 
i just KNEW this was gonna be a pubic hair thread. i don't have enough edjumacation to grow but i'm learning cuz i want to, my best friends' entire house is surrounded, on their front porch small potted spices and herbs, on the side vines and veggies, in the back fruit trees. (and inside they're growing some glaucoma medication). i would've thought this requires a massive amount of time and energy but they have two kids and both work full time???

i wanna learn to be more self sufficient like that cuz you just can't trust where you buy your food anymore, the curtain was pulled back years ago in that viral video of a burger king worker bathing in the dishwashing sink. when we don't have to worry about general neglect and unsanitary conditions, there's also people deliberately sabotaging food supplies. i'll probably never be fully self-sustaining in this regard but i'd at least like to try.
 
fabulouslyghetto said:
i wanna learn to be more self sufficient like that cuz you just can't trust where you buy your food anymore, the curtain was pulled back years ago in that viral video of a burger king worker bathing in the dishwashing sink. when we don't have to worry about general neglect and unsanitary conditions, there's also people deliberately sabotaging food supplies. i'll probably never be fully self-sustaining in this regard but i'd at least like to try.
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Burger King is not food.
 
rareboy said:
My job was to turn over about 300 sf of what used to be vegetable beds in order to plant another 500 bulbs for Spring that my partner bought me as a surprise gift.
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:love:

What kinds did he buy you?

And will you post pics for us come springtime?
 
Good year for potatoes in Edmonton. Lots of peas, bean, & corn. Squash did not do well at all, sad little runty things. Massive grapes everywhere. Carrots - they grew but I think I got adventurous with the variety and they're little stumpy things. Peppers did okay but the ornamental ones really impressed me. Basil, oregano, thyme, catnip, all good. Tomatoes! Super late but now i have trillions. First these awesome sweet little cherry tomatoes. Now massive "amish paste" tomatoes. The amish know their pasty tomatoes!
 
bankside said:
... First these awesome sweet little cherry tomatoes....
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If you like sweet cherry tomatoes, I recommend Chocolate Cherry. They are the purple/brown/mauve ones in the picture. Harvested a few pounds this week and there are still some out there. Heavy producer, well formed and no cracking until the past couple of weeks. The all-red ones are Red Fig, tasty, but not as awesome as the Chocolate Cherry. The others are possibly what someone else called Chocolate Cherry (not sure); while pretty, the taste is unremarkable. The Chocolate Cherry ones are not completely ripe in this picture, but the ripen well with full flavor if picked a bit early.
 

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EJMichaels said:
Chocolate Cherry
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I can't recall growing these, but I liked growing tomatoes like this when I first grew tomatoes. The color was a fun change from red!

From my fast search, it looks like these are heirloom tomatoes, which is something else I'm biased towards. I ended up with red cherry tomatoes this year, although it was mainly a case what was the best choice available.

Maybe I'll have to try this next year, assuming I'm ambitious enough to grow tomatoes again.
 
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