wan2hav's Blog

LAST WINTERS 'OH WELL ' NEWS ...

Posted: Sep/08/2007 7:35 PM PST

Oh Well...we're getting to the end of the season now...it came pretty quickly here.....a week or so ago..we had a few days of cold weather and my cucumbers have never recovered. There leaves are now yellowed..brown and covered in that winter veil of gray like substance. The cold snap just snapped thier will to live ! A got a few more off of them !! But the days are numbered now.

But.......my tomatoes and eggplants are still going strong ! I am amazed at the amount of eggplant produced by these plants this year....the slowed during that cold snap...but once the sun returned and the bees returned to pollenate...back they came.....I'll be making my second large pan of eggplant parmasan in a day or two.They taste GREAT and ohh so fresh !!

The SWEET 100 grape tomato plants I grew this year..took me awhile to get used to....they started slow and grow on a bracht..unlike any I have grown before !But you know...they turned out to be the best ever ...sooo sweet. A little harder to pick..off of the bracht..and seem to be deeper into the plant itself...but well worth the extra work.

I had so many volunteer tomatoe plants this year ..I was almost swamped...they were mostly Brandy Boys..hugh..hugh....big shouldered tomatoes. They were all so tasty and big and meaty !.What a harvest !!....I also had a normal red tomatoe and a flame tomatoe. The flame tomatoes..are very pretty and unusual..but I was not crazy about the taste of them...but they make for a lot of conversation...and are okay in the sauce pot.But for eating the Brandy Boys are the best !Also I had some Big Boys ..more on them later as they are both still producing! Not the best--but still quite a good yield on these tomatoes.

Posted: Oct/05/2007 2:41 PM PST

Todays tempature is about 80 degrees !.it is certainly keeping my peppers and eggplants and a few tomatoes going strong ! Its a very nice surprise for this year..to still be enjoying fresh produce......

Heres some of my big red ones !!

Posted: Oct/10/2007 8:15 PM PST

Cold and wet weather has just made its appearance again.

Two days ago 80's........now 60 - 70 degrees.

I harvested some things ..but I'll be out again in a day or so for more. I HOPE that the tempature dosen't drop TOO much....and that the rains don'r destroy everything !!

Fall is creeping in ....

Posted: Nov/11/2007 1:11 PM PST

Racing quickly towards the holidays...and I've heard of flood and famine..and fire and eathquakes....but my gardens knew little of this.hey produced until the killing frost last week.....and even still...a few peppers brightly red still hang...and a few tomatoes...not enough sun nor heat to ripen them ...also offer the sad thought.....Is summer really over ??? Yes... yes !!.........and I shall put you to bed shortly. I would of already....but I was felled by a flu or cold or whatever one calls these things these days....no outside work for me for another week or so...for now lots of bed rest....fluids...and tissues !

My pick of this garden season------EGGPLANT ! SO STRONG IT GREW AND FLOWERED AND PRODUCED TILL THE KILLING FROST. I will certainly try to reproduce this crop again next year !

Posted: Jan/17/2008 1:15 PM PST

To the poster that wanted pics of my ERNIE PUMPKIN !!

THis guy grew unknown to me about three years ago.....I was shocked to see it...because I hadn't planted any pumkins that year at all....

After it was finally identified and I knew what I had--I cared for it better...and the final result --was the beautiful Orange Pumpink in the last photo.

Enjoy !!