I hate you.
Hell, me too. All we’ve harvested is a few radishes.
Five of our plants have a lot of fruit on them, but nothing close to picking. The weather’s been so weird. We’ll have a few hot days, then it cools down, more hot days, etc. Not much humidity yet, and I think tomatoes like humidity.
The guy at the produce stand said we might have sweet corn in a week though.
Have had Sweet 100s for a week or so. But …
The first two full size ones have been thieved before they were reasonably ripe. The second had just turned all orange. All squirrels must die!
Lot’s of one and a half inch tomatoes, on the Wayahead variety. The others are growing well. The sweet corn where I buy from is up to the chest now.
I came back home a few days ago from a 3 week vacation to find a 2’ tall tomato plant in my flower garden. I have no idea how it got there, but it now has itty bitty green tomatos on it! I can’t wait to see how they develop.
We have three Early Girls and a Sweet 100 going this year. We usually plant more but we’re going garden lite this summer. We don’t have good luck with other varieties we’ve tried, though store Romas are getting waxy, too, so I might try growing one next year. We have a few small fruits so far, but the peas are having a great season and the peach is bearing a lot more than last year. We’ve had plenty of raspberries and blueberries and I think this weekend we’ll have a few artichokes ready to eat.
I planted tomatos. This is my first attempt at growing veg. I planted 6 tomato plants, two zuchini and two summer squash. Oh, and pumpkins. I sowed 30 seeds, about 18 have germinated so far, and a squirrel got in there yesterday afternoon and dug up and ate about 6 seeds that were either ungerminated or still in the early stages. That leaves another six seeds that may or may not yet germinate, so I could end up with two dozen pumpkin plants! I have no idea how the tomatos, zuchini and summer squash will do, but I’m going to go out on a limb and predict lots of pumpkins come October (fingers crossed).
Earlier I was going to say I had some pumpkins, up tp 3 inches diameter already. Thanks to Winston I have to post that now.
I have three tomato plants one Sweet 100s, one Health Kick, one Mortgage Lifter. Had one Sweet 100 ripen this week - I ate it right off the plant. The Health Kicks are coming along nicely, but aren’t ripe yet. Mortgage Lifter was a present and was planted a couple weeks later. It’s just blooming right now (which is just as well, because there’s just one of me and at some point I’m going to have too many tomatoes, even for me).
I have a few peppers that are coming along nicely and some leeks that look like they’re doing well. And celery, which I bought by accident because someone had put it with the Italian parsley and I didn’t read the label till I got home. Seems to be doing well too.
GT
I haven’t grown celery, but researched it once as an option. The article said that they turn bitter if they lack moisture. Let use know how it turns out
I fried one of our green tomatoes and some okra give me by an associate at work in tempura batter. I should have taken time to make some Asian dumpling sauce.
I love living here.
I’ve got some flowers on my plants now. Unfortunately, it’s extremely wet in the north of England at the moment (and has been for some time), and all my vegetables and fruits seem to be suffering for it, not to mention the bees, which don’t seem to be doing any pollinating at the moment! I’m not holding out too much hope.
All my peas seem to be suffering from blight. My spinach has been hammered into the ground by relentless heavy rain, a lot of my courgettes are rotting on the plant etc. etc.
Fortunately, it’s my understanding that honey bees aren’t a big pollinator of tomatoes anyway. Sweat bees are to some extent.
Tomatoes largely self-pollinate.
In my garden, we thought we might have a ripe tomato for July 4, but it rotted instead. Bummer.
It was a very small green tomato.
I’ve come late to the discussion, but I’ve had about a half-dozen Early Girl’s already this year (I made the world’s best BLT yesterday for lunch).
As to blackberries - PLEASE come take some off my hands. I’m getting sick of eating blackberry cobbler. Mine grow wild along the frontage of my property and you’d be amazed at how many blackberries will grown in 700’. VDOT did me a favor two years ago by cutting back all of the weeds, trees, and blackberry canes along the road. Now, two years later, I’ve got more blackberries than Carter’s has liver pills.
I attempted blackberry wine one year and had some excellent salad vinegar.
I’m trying something different this year. I’m buzz pollinating my tomatoes myself. I know, I know. I makes me feel dirty.
I take my Braun electric toothbrush out to the garden and stroll around, buzzing each flower branch and giving the flowers a good… well, buzzing. I read they self pollinate but the buzzing really helps them get completely sexed up, resulting if bigger, meatier fruit. We’ll see if it helps.
This year: Brandywine, Golden Jubilee, Lemon Boy, Champion, Grape, Early Girl, and Sun Master. Haven’t harvested anything yet, but we’re getting close on a couple of them.
Tomato foreplay.
Have you no shame?
Three days later and the pumpkin is about 6 inches. Gotta love how fast they grow. I have a lot more set tomatoes too.
I have four tomato plants this year, two Thesoliniki and two Beam’s Yellow Pear. I put them in fairly late here, but the yellow pear looks like I’ll have some ripe in a week or so. I also grew some peppers and herbs (basil, oregano, marjoram, lemon thyme, parsley, coriander, and lemon balm.)