Summer/Fall Gardens 2015 Pt 5

jmc1987, I'd let it open up a bit more and see if the color doesn't normalize to the rest of the plant. If it doesn't, and still holds that green tint, then mark it and save seeds. It could be a mutation, in which case the seeds may carry it - or it could just be a somatic change (caused by temperature, stress, etc), in which case the seeds will not carry it.
If it is a mutation, you might not see it in the plants from the seeds next year, depending on whether it is recessive or dominant to the normal coloring, you'd have to go to the following generation of self-pollinated seeds to have it show up again.

I save Zinnia seeds last year and I got ths unusual flower .I like it.

cytf - Your zinnia looks like a cactus zinnia. Pretty.

I finally (after 3 days work) got my 2 and a half rows of strawberries free of weeds. As much work as I have given those strawberries, I surely hope they will produce well next year.......I know - I need to mulch them. Also planted a couple different kinds of radishes and some spinach. My turnips are up and doing well.

Here are some of my other garden projects. That last one is a riot of color, just not very color-coordinated, but was fun. My mums are just beginning to show color, so I'm waiting on them.

Today's project. Took forever to level, cause the ground was so uneven. May have to cut some piece to fill in the front side gaps... Raised Bed #5 is 34" x 12', and sits on the east wall of the house.

now brendak654's flower set up is exactly the type of thing i would love to pitch a blanket out and have a picnic at, lol

Latest harvests from my garden.
Broccoli, cabbages, Swiss chard and kale are growing indoor and soon be transplanted out.
It also seems that the weather is cooling down ... finally ...
Happy gardening

im keeping a close watch on that unique green marigold bloom every day, lol. And now theres an interesting development: There is a second green bloom beginning to open up on that same branch of the plant

also ive started a batch of autumn crops indoors as well to go along with the stuff i have direct seeded outdoors, im going to see what differences i see in starting them both ways.

According to my indoor/ outdoor thermometer it is100 on my shaded porch....so looking forward to cooler weather.

jmc - How about that green marigold?

I'm still picking and canning yard long green beans.

Someone tell me why my jalapenos (when they turn red) have this line markings on them???
I don't like how they do that..... If the green ones have been on the plant for a long time, sometimes they do the same thing.

These are ones I picked this morn to make pickled peppers with and the red ones were not as nice as I would have liked. All the red ones are like that.

What do you think?

Hardening off cabbages, broccoli and swiss chard. They will be transplanted in the ground at the end of this week.
Then pulling off Long Beans and start to direct seed lettuce and radishes.
Kales are still growing slowly indoor.
Fennel is also hardening off, but still too small to be transplanted outside.

The lines are normal and there's nothing wrong with your peppers.

Like Stephanie said the lines on your peppers are normal, but I don't know why they do that.

They will be hotter than with no lines.

apparently that entire branch carries the green bloom mutation. My camera really can not capture just how green they are.

Turnips are really coming along, seeing the bases on some of them starting to fatten up. Had a bit of a run in with some caterpillars, managed to either squish them at an early age, or hand pluck the bigger ones and fling them across the yard, lol.

Carrots are coming along well

The perpetual spinach is doing pretty decent as well.

the beets are the furthest behind i would say, they have been growing the slowest of all that i have planted.

also have radishes going now

it would help if i posted the RIGHT photo of the radish seedlings, lol!

I believe i have enough ground cherries to make this jam recipe that i had been saving them up for :)

(its further on down the page when you go to the link)

http://www.tastes-good-to-me.com/ground-cherry-jam/

Keep us posted on your ground-cherry jam, sounds really interesting. Good for you!

Now time for me to go break yard-long green beans.

Broccoli have been transplanted out. It is still very hot here (right now 94F) !! I need to watch them and water as needed.
Tomorrow I will transplant cabbages and some Swiss Chard.
Also direct seed lettuce and start more kale indoor.
Monday I will direct seed radishes.

Dreaming for a cool weather soon

Some lettuce won't germinate if the temps are too high so don't give up on it.

jmc I never had that many make it in the house. I ate them all.

well here is the ground cherry jam, it made a pint and a half, so i will use the half filled jar for taste testing ;) lol

How about finger licking. What do you think? Will you make the jam again? I'm amazed that you had enough ground cherries. Way to go.

I experimented today and made some "Flower Petal Jelly". I used calendula and nasturtium blossoms for the flower petals. No color added. Next I'll try some jalapeno jam. I have made the jalapeno before, and we lap it up.

We had rain this morn, off and on until about 10 - Was nice.

yeah i would say that i would do it again, i just wish i had started more than one plant over summer so i would have had enough to make more

Jmc, if I remember correctly you initially thought those were tomatillos, not ground cherries? Is that what the seed packet said? The reason I'm asking is I've had the same thing happen a couple of times but I thought I got the labels mixed up.

yeah i was confused at first, because i was looking around online for a proper name ID, and well that just added to my confusion, lol. The seed i got came as a bonus for ordering a blueberry bush from a nursery company called Brecks

At a glance, I thought I saw a turnip in the turnip patch. Turns out it is two guinea eggs. HA!
Joke was on me...........

apparently i need some glasses, i first read that as "two guinea pigs", LOL!

The lines on the peppers indicate maturity.

boy beets sure do grow slowly. But i am seeing some bulbing happening on some of my turnips! :)

Did you soak the beet capsules before you sowed them?

Thanks for all the info on the lines on my peppers.

I'm heading out to pick more yard long pole beans. They are getting less and less, but if I keep them picked, I think they will bare up until frost.

My long beans eventually bit the dust but they did produce for a long time.

I'm gonna soak some beet seeds this evening. Planting in 6 oz. yogurt cups for transplant in 4 more weeks. Still a bit too hot here.

Got the A-frame PVC hoops put up ver the new 3x12' raised bed that sits under the eaves that has no gutter So, there's a constant drip from the roof line, and the bed stays bright to shade-y..

Lettuce, kale, beets, and carrots like it consistently moist...they'd BETTER, LOL!

Jmc they should be fine, it might slow down germination but that should be about it. The temp of the soil might have something to do with it. I've never been able to pin down when the best time to sow them is around her. Sometimes they bulb up fine and sometimes they take forever.

Some beets don't make much of a bulb. Some beets are varieties that are for beet greens. If you plant one of these they will never get a large bulb. Tall Wonder is a beet green type.

this would be the variety that they are

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/64092/

They should get big. One of the reviews said they got golf ball size another said she had some 4 pounders. ph needs to be 6 to 7'5

Didn't get to soak any beets last night, but, I did manage to cover ALL the raised beds with perforated plastic.

Squirrels on a rampage...