Oh interesting- top half was dark wilted dead and bottom half leaves fried but stayed green. The picture is only missing maybe an inch of plant as I cut the obviously dead off
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Landlord came by to make plans for killing the front lawn and was really impressed with my potted tomatoes sitting on top of it 
not sure if they’re actually that good or he hasn’t seen many container gardens, but either way I’ll take it
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killing the lawn- are you going to have a garden space? or? i sure hope he does make one for you
It’s all tree and shrub roots and the dirt is all but gone, not even the lawn can take root there so an in ground garden isn’t likely to be successful. They’re gonna hardware cloth & wood chip it all and for now I’ll have my tomatoes, squash, and peppers in containers on the chips. Same with my trees.
I had plans to put in raised beds but lost motivation when I got a community garden plot and life got busy. We’ll see how that goes next year, it will be expensive since I was planning on 18in of soil since the roots won’t have anywhere to go.
Regardless, blueberries and trees will stay in pots on account of the whole renting thing
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Bummer they can’t just drop a foot deep of wood chips and you’ll have soil next year to plant in.
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If the chips decompose that fast, I’m sure I can punch a hole in the hardware cloth next year. I put some flower starts & leftover strawberries wherever I could find some usable soil in the border and they’re doing cutouts for those
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that cloth is a future nightmare, haha. ask me how i know.
we did the big areas with cardboard and I’m really glad
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I had really good luck with TC Jones last year. Very productive for an heirloom. Wish I grew it again this year as of now.
i planted a lot more trifele than i thought. i sold a few last Sunday and I’m giving away a bunch this Sunday. and I’ll still have extras i think. these grow so well here i end up planting them every year. they’re decent fruit, I’ve made paste from them as well as eaten them as slicing tomatoes, they make a lot.
they’re the bottom right in this photo from last year. I’m not growing the great white ever again, bland and watery and it only made a few fruits. the top left is moldovan yellow i think, i did start a few of those.
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Pepino on the way! I think they are not fully self-fertile, as this is the only one to pollinate so far out of like 15-20 flowers. My Tzimbalo has been doing the same thing, tons of flower no pollination. I just planted my other seedling Tzimbalo nearby to hopefully help with pollination.
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you try the ol electric toothbrush trick? at least by me bees are just barely gettin out
I have not. However our bees and wasps have been busy. Our bumbles pretty much never go to sleep, even when its really cold, you can usually find a bumble on a wildflower somewhere.
The pepino is almost ripe though, its started to develop purple stripes. My cherry tomatoes and peppers are in full production. Peppers aren’t ripe yet, but they’ve set a ton.
Not sure what to do with this tamarillo. It has definitely outgrown its pot. I have a 15gal pot I can put it in or I can put it in the ground. I’m only hesitant to put it in the ground because it is doing way better than my other inground tamarillo, and I don’t really wanna put it in the 15 because I only have 2 of those. I am also thinking about topping it some to try to get it to branch out.
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Whats doing this to these Kellogg leaves? This plant is in a bag as it was an extra without a home never seen this before
Edit I just read @Fusion_power tomato posts- is this leaves shriveling from the cold? These stayed outside for a few drops to the 30’s.
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Set most of my tomatoes in shade today. There’s a few dozen which aren’t out yet, I had to stop because I was getting an allergy attack from the plants. I don’t know why I’m allergic to the plants & pollen but not the fruits. Some of my plants also aren’t lignified yet so I’m gonna put them out later. I find a large hard stem helps the plants resist septoria. Septoria strikes first on non-lignified growth, so a tender stem makes the whole plant vulnerable. That is why my plants are so large when I set them out, all that lignified growth protects them from the disease.