Next years garden
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| Mon, 08-30-2004 - 7:29pm |
My big tomatoes arent turning red yet, but hadnt picked any cherry or grape tomatoes since about Thursday or maybe it was friday. Picked what was ripe today and I ended up with about 30 ground cherries(they look a wee bit like a tomatillo with a husk but its a real soft husk and they taste almost like a cross between a tomato and a cherry. Many no bigger than a pea.
BUT those little cherry and grape tomatoes decided to get ripe at the same time so i have picked SIXTY FIVE of them tonite, along with two tiny jingle bell peppers(teeny sweet peppers) and one green tomato that fell off the vine in the hopes that it might ripen.
IF ALL the big tomatoes ripen at the same time I could be in trouble!! I know the big beef someone snuck in my shopping cart has 10 tomatoes on it. There are probably at least another 6 full sized plants and the Waysider(think thats the name and im still not sure if its fullsized or not.
I do need to get out there and do some weeding and organizing of the plants a little better......BUT i cannot believe how many i got tonite, dang I should have taken a picture before i picked them all!

Yay for you on having those tomatoes rippen! Your so very lucky with having so many great things in your garden, which in my opinion no matter how much work it takes you always benefit from all the work you put in by what you receive out of it. If I could have a garden I would be so thrilled since I really do prefer home grown vegetables and fruits. Nothing like enjoying a great tasting vegetable that is grown by you, which makes it taste that much better at least to me.
It sounds like you will have lots of great tomatoes to use up in salads or what ever you can come up with to use them in. If you have to many you can always share them with your friends and family since I know they would just love that. All the work you put into your garden is good for you so you just keep doing the great job you have been doing.
Maybe the next batch that rippens you can take a great picture of for us to all see. I would so love to see what you have grown in your garden for sure. Take care and do have a super terrific day!
Is it possible that you could grow some green beans? They are almost a free food for diabetics and fresh ones taste better than the store bought ones. I am growing zucchini's, egg plant ( haven't had a single one on the plant!), green beans, and three kinds of tomatoes. Have had wonderful success with the tomatoes and mediocore success with the green beans this year. I am on my second batch of chard as the birds ate the first batch when it was an inch tall. Hubby really likes chard but it really isn't doing wonderful. I also planted some strawberries. The burds got the first berries and I have had nothing since. So much for ever bearring plants! I have to be careful what I grow because of the cool weather. But I can grow lettuce most of the winter which you can't do. I di remember Wisc winters as I grauated from high School in Madison, Wisc.
It is really fun having a graden even if it costs so much to grow things that you could get cheaper in the store! But then they wouldn't be organic!
Congrats on your green thumb!
Mary Frances
cl-maryfrances40
Co-CL Diabetes Board
i think id probalby be ok if i got the bush kind and probably put a tomato cage around it or something. i might try those this next year.
by the way, the one big green tomato that fell off the plant is turning and its one of the golden girl ones...real obvious its not gonna be orangy. but i also discovered today about 4-5 small sized large tomatoes out there!! along with another 25 cherry tomatoes. think we are gonna make some tomato and mozarella salad with them.
auntydoxzz
this year i was too involved with the tomatoes to find some plants again. i think i will try again next year.