Same @DragonflyLane ! Never been successful with any slicers. Gave Cherokee Purple a try this year, first big beautiful one gets blush, I see a squirrel dragging it up the side of the fence like Sisyphus that afternoon.
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There used to be a bunch of this as ground cover around an apt complex where my in-laws live. Pretty nice to produce fruit in that kind of space, but it seemed best to assume they were covered with dog pee.
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melon patch: like everything else, all male flowers so far. everything is late. bah
a winter melon flowering too.
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This year my tomatoes are terrific. Each summer I grow fewer and fewer plants.
They are in a raised bed with tomato cages. I used to try all sorts of heirlooms and strange ones - but they never amounted to anything. So I stick with my tried and true ‘Better Boys’ these days. I took a chance on one ‘Big Beef’ . . . but the usual thing happened. Very few tomatoes and the vine is so much spindlier than the Better Boys’.
Cucumbers are good. Tagged as ‘Japanese Cucumber’ I was expecting a long cucumber. But, no . . . they are about 6-7". And not as tasty as my favorite, “Sweet Slice”.
Oddly enough - I have not seen one Horned Tomato Worm . . . or worms of any kind, for that matter. The vines are still going strong, when by this time in other summers they are really on their way out. What gives? Very light Japanese Beetle population, where we usually are over run with the things!
It’s been a strange strange summer. Peaches and nectarines were scarce and ‘stunk’. Apples - not impressive. But the tomatoes . . . . wah lahhhhhh!
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Those look both small and pale. Morello has red flesh and juice. Here in the States the only Morello I know about (and sure hope there is another) is last to ripen among cherries. I loved it, but so did the fruit flies. I won’t spray poisons so it had to go after a while.
If you still have fruit on that tree you might consider watering it deeply one time right away & see what happens to the fruit in the next week.
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Waited a few days or so too long to pick this one. Looks to be ok though. Im not sure of the variety.
My biggest Hosui is not quite ready. Doesn’t drop when lifted, but definitely turning golden.
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Vicenza Blue Lavender. Not the most beautiful of all lavenders, but I grew it from seed and it survives my winters.
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Picked chokecherries and sand cherries on the corners of irrigation pivots out in western Nebraska while visiting my sisters there.
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So I was waiting for my largest Hosui to drop when lifted, then I noticed its starting to rot.
I guess its not that easy to know when to pick. It will still taste good, just need to cut away the bad part.
314 grams
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Garlic that survived the chicken abuse earlier this spring…
These were the leftovers from my mother planting out garlic at her house. I am happy to have some! Spanish Roja, Music, and Georgian Fire.
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Forgot to post some nice flowers too.
Don’t remember the name of this pond plant.
Bee butt!
Tigridias again. Usually by the time I get home in the afternoon they have finished and are wilting. Pic from the weekend.
Don’t remember what variety this is but like it quite a lot.
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Went to pick some white Cocoplums (Chrysobalanus icaco). Whites (imo) are sweeter and bigger than the purples. Most of these are little too bug bitten for fresh eatting, but I am going to attempt to make some jam with them. Also going to roast the seeds and see how that tastes. The seeds were pretty okay raw.
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Neighbor’s Blackberries (Unknown variety:suspected to be Navaho)
Sweet 100 Cherry Tomatoes and Big Boy Tomatoes
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Final Flavor Grenade Pluot harvest. 24 fruit averaging 67 grams.
I’ll thin more aggressively next year to get larger fruit.
Overall very pleased with this tree. Insects have yet to find it, just birds. Not even squirrels have bothered it. I’ll net the tree next year.
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Doppelte Phillips/ Phillips double
Trévoux are upsolutely loaded and sizing up
Funnily, while the protected tree on the south side of the house has much bigger fruit, the freestanding trees have much redder pears, very attractive
First Giffards
Guyot are loaded
Pastorenbirne/ Poire Curé is full as well
The black apricot definitely have cherry plum size. But at least the taste is apricot like and the flesh has nothing of the watery boringness of a cherry plum.
Hollyhock
Verbascum nigrum
Aconitum napellus, one of the most poisonous plants in Europe
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I’ve never thought of mullein as a garden plant before, but now I want one. That verbascum nigrum is extraordinary!
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