Two of the tomato varieties I am developing.
The red/green one for paste and the yellow one for fresh eating.
Lemonquat (sunquat), red finger lime, and eustis limequat.
Lemonquat (sunquat), red finger lime, and eustis limequat.
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See if the weird one has seeds in it if you haven’t eaten it yet and remember?
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I looked up Black Futsu squash on rareseeds.com to find a much darker, warty fruit on big vines. Yours sounds like something I’d like to try. Where did you get the seed?
Hudson Valley Seed Company.
The color might be dependent on growing conditions…I don’t know as it was the first time growing it.
A small update. I had 2 vines planted in a raised bed. I’ve harvested 6 squash. There are 2 more on the vines, one already curing and the other green.
I’d say pretty good production for an ~5’x5’ growing area.
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Yeah, I was wondering if it is a sport .
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I’m amazed that two plants stayed in a 5x5? Shockingly compact and sounds like a must-try if it’s good.
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Raised bed. 5 feet by 2.5 feet, 20 inches tall. I let a few vines run on the limestone ground. Pretty compact.
If i was more regular with my watering, they would have been bigger.
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New peanut butter fruit! 1st one pollinated on my larger plant. That means both my trees have produced fruit now.
Coconas really ramping up production. All 3 of my plants have fruit on them now. Maybe it was too hot for fruit set before.
Peppers are producing now. I few generic bells, a white zinfidel bell, Thunder Mountain Longhorns, serranos and a HJ#2 Meteor. A few others ripening on the plant still.
Tomatillos finally pollinated. I have 2 that have had tons of flowers since May. Finally fruiting, probably 15 on the plant.
Red yardlong beans. Might just save the seeds for next year since I only have the one plant.
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Punch bowl Autumn Olive. My happiest bush this year. Finally a decent harvest. The largest berries.
Amber Autumn Olive. Compared to another cultivar. Finally sizing up.
One berry from each of my bushes, except none from Florence Strange. Most of the bushes are smallish and just a mess of all over inconsistent ripening due to age. Small, unripe, sour berries still.
This is the first year I’ve hand more than a few ripen all together. I still wouldn’t consider the ripening dates as set in stone yet. But with them ripening just barely now, that’s later than I hoped for. We normally have a frost already and I was hoping most varieties would ripen before or close to it. Wishful thinking.
So my tops this year are Punchbowl. And 2nd Amber.
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Well, they get to a certain point and turn yellow/orange quickly and picked easily.
Very juicy, tasted tart with a flavor of cucumber with some kiwi in it, no sweetness, no bitterness, didn’t taste bad, but tasted better with some sugar. Don’t chew the seeds or arils otherwise it will taste worse, just slurp out the inside.
I think it would make a good preserve.
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You have the fruit for a new, infused, spa water drink. 
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Super neglected Marquette grape. I forgot I planted it and forgot to weed eat around it at all. It was just growing on the ground rooting. Oops. Tiny dark berries.
Fredonia Grape. Only slightly neglected. Quite large nice sized darkish bloomy berries.
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Deutsche Nationalbergamotte
Spartan
Some roses (cultivar name unknown)
Veggies
Triomphe de vienne, first Harrow Sweet, other assorted first fruit
Rosa canina hips coloring up
Herzogin Elsa
Gellert/ Hardy
Gute Louise/ Louise bonne d’Avranches
Schafbirne
Schafbirne, Rosana apples, Muotathaler Heulampe
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they were Armenian cucumbers indeed. really good too.
a delicata was ready. comice pears still going on the tree. i may pick soon
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How long you been growing Comice pear? Someone asked me about it and I had no information to offer.
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mine is only 2 years old. I’m pretty surprised it has grown enough to carry a few fruits
