What to plant in my garden
The peppers and tomatoes I bought as plants, everything else I started from seed (much less expensive).
In regards to the peppers I had meant to buy two bell pepper plants and one mini bell pepper. I had a brain fart and accidentally grabbed a jalapeño plant in place of one of the bell pepper plants. The second plant was accidentally dropped and snapped in half before being planted. So I ended up with no regular sized bell pepper plants.
The mini did make one pepper and it didn't have a ton of taste but I also got impatient and did pick it a bit early. The jalapeño has only produced two so far, but they were not lacking in flavor.
Nice job!!
I applaud your brussels sprouts...I failed misearably with those last year.
Well, don't applaud my Brussels sprouts just yet, they still have tiny little buds. The broccoli looks great though. And the tomatoes are really starting to produce
ETA: We originally had four large tomatoes but the two year old snagged two of them and ate them like they were apples
spontaneous said:
Well, don't applaud my Brussels sprouts just yet, they still have tiny little buds. The broccoli looks great though. And the tomatoes are really starting to produce
ETA: We originally had four large tomatoes but the two year old snagged two of them and ate them like they were apples
Gorgeous, I have a hard time getting them to ripen prior to August...
The large ones are Early Girls. They are ripening very fast as the name implies, but I don't think I'll get them again. They are good for cooking but their taste/texture is not well suited to eating fresh as you would in a salad. Since the whole point of tomatoes is the taste it is a bit of a disapointment. The cherry tomatoes (I forget which variety, I'll have to check the plant marker) are delicious though.
ETA: the cherry tomatoes are Super Sweet 100 hybrid cherry tomato indeterminate. I am guessing that "indeterminate" is in regards to when they ripen
So I've been a little busy with the tomatoes and didn't see that the broccoli was ready to be harvested. Oops.
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spontaneous said:
We originally had four large tomatoes but the two year old snagged two of them and ate them like they were apples
It's a really good way to eat a homegrown tomato!
I've developed a bad habit of eating the cherry tomatoes right off the vine. I don't use any sprays, but of course who know if bugs or birds are pooping on them. They "look" clean and taste so good that I just cannot resist.
The full sized tomatoes are ripening too fast now. The kids eat them straight, formerlyjerseyjack makes tomato salads, we put them in tossed salads, and I just purchased mozzarella and basil to eat some with. We're actually running out of ways to eat them so now Scully has taken to bringing extras to friends's houses
We did not plant anything new this year, although we have a couple of blueberry bushes in tubs on our deck. They fruited quite nicely this year, and I was gathering blueberries every couple of days (I eat straight off the bush, too, with similar qualms. Doesn't stop me.).
Anyway, we have a ton of birds nesting in various shrubs around the new house, many of which are mockingbirds. One mother mockingbird discovered the blueberries, and I started noticing her landing in the tub, reaching up, snagging a berry, and carrying it off to feed her babies in the hedge. Then, I realized that the babies, now very fat teenagers with speckled breasts, were hopping plumply around the blueberry bushes, wheezing and chucking and begging for berries.
I quit picking the berries. It was too much fun to watch the birds, and I'd already had a couple rounds of berries on my cereal and bluebery shortcake. 
Lovely!
I gave up growing bell peppers because I consistently find my home-grown peppers don't have much flavor. It's the only produce I've ever grown where we found we preferred the store-bought version. Is it just me?