I am growing mostly cherry tomatoes. Lots of them.
Yellow Pear is one, but not my favorite.
Gold Nudget is my absolute yellow favorite.
The larger ones are almost ready. Tomorrow I will pick Black Krim ... I just have so many.
The larger Bell Pepper is Marconi ... I have lots of others .. but forgot the names ... the tags are in the garden.
Those eggplants are not Black Beauty. They are Dusky and Victoria (the longer one).
I am not a huge fun of Black Beauty. I like the classic eggplant more.
I will post more pictures soon .. I just came back and have not unpacked yet ... but I found the time to pick tomatoes ... giggles ....
Zones 8-9 Spr/Sum 2011 Veggie Gardening is UNDERWAY Part III
drthor can you give me a bit of info on Gold Nugget? I am looking for a sweet yellow cherry type to grow for the little girls next door.
Beautiful haul, drthor! Even the eggplants are pretty, although I hate eggplant. :-) I would gobble up those tomatoes, though.
Mindy
More harvest today. My first Black Krim ... yummy
araness: GOLD NUDGET, small cherry yellow tomatoes, determinate, 3' max bush kind with millions of tomatoes ... taste excellent
Mindyrecycles, I luv eggplants. I was born in Italy and we can cook eggplants in all different ways, even with chocolate as a dessert.
Enjoy
I am growing Golden Nuggets (that is what it says on package)..lots of branches with bloom flowers right now..about 2 1/2 feet tall inside cages..will post a pic soon
This is Golden Nughets ... after the first two harvests.
Still lots of tomatoes on the vine.
more tomatoes harvests
My heaviest tomato so far: BHN 444
The tomatoes I started didn't do so well. I did get 2 vollunteers in a flower bed I put in spring. One is doing really well and looks like a Roma. They are not getting ripe but tomorrow I will prune it and see if that helps.
Dane
more tomatoes harvest
still lots of tomatoes
Blackberries are starting to make fruits .... most of them didn't made it to the picture spot.
Also RAT TAIL radishes are starting.
Eggplants, peppers and my first OKRA !!
The larger eggplant is about 8" long.
This year my bell peppers are doing amazing.
How in the world are you producing okra already?!! Did you bury a heating pad under them?! My biggest plant is only about 6" tall. My eggplant and peppers are doing fantastic as well as my cucs. I planted Northern Pickling and Satsuki Madori and picked the first of those tonight. My tomatoes are okay--just waiting for them to get ripe. I always think some @#$$%^ bug will eat into them before they get ripe. You know how you go out every day and watch them? And then one day you see that some bug got them? It's my nightmare!
Drthor, your bounty is beautiful! I want those blackberries!
I dunno, it is the first time I am growing Okra (Jing Orange)
The plants are still small ... but it seems that they are starting to grow more ... but not much.
Your cucumber looks great. My cukes are still small. I had to replant them because the pilll bugs ate my first ones !!$$##@@!!!!@##
Here is my baby cucumber. I am so proud.
Drthor,
It has truly been an inspiration to watch your progress since we started the Zone 8-9a Veggie Growers thread! I would be much ablidged (sp?) if you would take me along for your next season, by posting what you are doing, and when you are doing it.
I have located all my seedling paraphernalia and my seeds, and have determined I will begin sowing some cole crop seeds mid-June/mid-July for plantout around September 15th. I read somewhere that one of the keys to cole crop success is to transplant substantial size seedlings that can get established before a real chill sets in. I'll direct sow the beets, turnips, and carrots.
My list includes growing 12 different veggies in the fall/winter, to include:
Beets
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflowers
Collard Greens
Lettuce
Mustard Greens
Sugar Snap Peas
Spinach
Turnips
Did I miss anything I should be growing in the fall/winter?
Linda
This message was edited May 24, 2011 10:54 AM
Thanks so much for the nicest words.
I will try to post when I am seeding something.
Right now I am all set untill mid July, when I will plan to start my broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflowers, kale and kohlrabi by seed indoor.
I don't grow beets, cabbage (actually I do, but just to use them as flower plants for my front yard), carrots, peas (I gave up) and turnips. I grow only what we really like.
I will try to post dates.
THANK YOU! ^^_^^ (jumping up and down, clapping hands!!!)
I have harvested half of my GARLIC today !!
I plan on harvesting my garlic and taters this weekend, if the rain ever stops!
I can't believe I missed the blackberries first time around. They look great -- JEALOUS! I do have baby green ones, nothing ripe yet.
Mindy
Gymgirl, you hit on the big question I always have -- WHEN. I am getting better about WHAT to do but I will be a devoted follower of drthor (and you! and a few others!) if y'all keep dropping bread crumbs on what you are doing WHEN. Just this week I was thinking how great it would be to have a thread that is simply "What are you doing TODAY IN ZONE 8/9?
SO, please, yes, you've asked the exact right question -- for me, anyway!
LiseP
What is the best way to harvest my potatoes? Do I just pull off the green tops and then start digging with a fork or what?
Stephanie-I read above that you weren't going to plant for spring/summer I hope you reconsider. I haven't finished planting out (I'm always late but this year is worse due to a lot of other stuff) either. I figure that its been hot for so long I might as well just stick some extras in the ground. If nothing else they'll be further along come fall. Like I posted on another thread I haven't finished planting out my peppers or eggplant but this is the first year that I have tomatoes set on every plant that has been in the ground over 2 weeks and the plants are growing really fast, and NO disease problems. (knock on wood)
This wil be the first year I see the fruit on some of these types of tomatoes. Last year many of them died before they could produce. The only problem I have had (besides lack of time) is one of the first tomato plants I planted was just sitting there. I yanked it and it had less roots then when it went in the ground! I turned it over and there was a white grub attached to what was left of the roots. I looked in the hole dug around some and then stuck another plant in the same hole. It has already grown some. That is one thing I have noticed this year is that everything I've stuck in the ground took of running.
My husband has been having some health problems and that's been taking all my time. Once I harvest the garlic and potatoes, I might plant something in those beds since they're pretty much prepared and don't require mixing any compost or amendments in. It's all I can do to take care of him, me, the kitties, the house, and work full-time.
I just didn't want you to think you had waited too long. I do understand having other, more important obligations. :) I consider TX to have 1 long growing season (not 2 short ones)because it got much hotter in CA where Im originally from and we grew stuff all summer long.
I hope things go better with you and your husband, I'll be thinking of you.
LiseP,
This one's for you!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1184654/
Harvesting sweet corn! Still have to deal with the corn ear worms...apparently the Sevin doesn't work, or I didn't time it appropriately. Oh well, I can always trim the wormy ends and still have a nice (small) cob of corn. Picking several pounds of tomatoes every day. I can't imagine how they'd be doing if we had rain and normal temperatures. Pulled onions and garlic yesterday. Have about 40-50 pounds of Texas 1015 Sweet onions and Southern Belle red onions.
David
David,
Post a pic of your onions, please. How big did the 1015s get? Mine were set out January 8th and I have until July to reach the DsTM date (6 months!)
Linda
LiseP
OK, I will state what all of us are thinking. drthor for the 2011 Nobel Gardening Prize. That 1 million dollar prize money would keep her in tomato seeds and bat guano for a long time. And I also believe that she deserves her own thread, maybe it could be called "drthor, what are you doing in your garden today?" I wish I had joined DG and read her posts back in December 2010 and then I would be laughing along with her now. (I also posted this on another thread, I just don't remember which one. Can anyone say no short-term memory?)
ok, I accept !!
Here my last two harvest after the bad storm that hit DFW a few days ago.
another one. Actually this is the first one ... I had to pick all those green tomatoes from the ground.
I think I need to go produce shopping at dr's place!
Drthor,
Those green ones fell to the ground? I never had a perfectly good tomato fall From the vine.
Yes the green tomatoes fell from the vine ... or shall I say they were launched around the back yard ... (the small ones)
The storm a few days ago was really bad. I missed the tornado and the hail, but the heavy rain and wind knocked fruits down to the ground.
I feel lucky after watching the news and other people houses.
No problema ... that's why I have planted so many plants and varieties.
Linda, this was during some VERY high and strong winds with lots of rotation in the clouds. The storm spawned several tornadoes throughout its trek across the DFW area, especially up near where dr lives.
Hrp--It was in Gardening the 40. You're welcome! I understand "no short-term memory"!!
Linda,
Here's a photo of my onions. The largest are the size of a softball. Most are about the size of a baseball. It is a mixed bag, though, because some are small. The 200 plants (minus at least 25% lost to the freeze) produced about 40 lbs of onions. The reds were a little smaller and produced about 25 pounds.
David
David,
That is a great haul! Congratulations!
I'm beginning to wonder if I shouldn't start pulling my onions. How do you know when they're ready, besides the 6-months-to-grow rule? Unfortunately, ALL my leaves were bent over from the beginning, due to the wind that kept them growing on their sides. So, I can't use the old "wait-until-the-leaves-fall-over" rule.
^^_^^
P.S. My purples are the smallest, too. Only about 1/2 as large as the others. Maybe that's just the nature of that onion? But, I have at least one that's the same size (tennis ball) as the yellows, which are the largest. The whites are baseball size.
Linda
Hey, I've been meaning to ask this. I had 2 organic onions sprout so I just planted them in my herb bed. Will they make more onions? I know NOTHING about growing onions! I also planted a bunch of org. green onions--cut the tops off and planted the rest. Do they spread? Thanks! Janet