Gardening excitement
Jul. 20th, 2002 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sierciaWent outside today to see how my little plants had fared through the serious stomping that they got yesterday in the monsoon-like downpours of the morning to find that they were doing quite well indeed.
My tomatoes continue to grow very strongly. The two that were already big are now enormous (!5 on one, 7 on the other and countless new flowers as well). The two that were littler seem to be trying to catch up. The 3 biggest now has 3 or 4 fruit and a bunch of flowers. The little one still only has the one fruit, but seems to be recovering from the trauma to it's main stem and is sending up new leave shoots. Time will tell if he's going to produce any more than his one tomato. I hope so, because his variety name is interesting (Lemon Boy) and I haven't been able to find that cultivar name anywhere (It is entirely possibe he was labelled badly, of course).
I finally have fruit on one of my yellow squash plants, and two itty-bitty cucumbers growing on the cucmumber plants. The pepper plants are finally showing some evidence of life, and so are the eggplants. I'm really starting to think the "acorn squash" was mislabelled as they seem awfully productive for a "winter squash" and look an awful lot like the zucchini and yellow squash plants. Whatever that is in particular, it's trying to overtake the pepper plants, throwing out very long vines with blossom buds all along the vines. I'm wondering at the zucchini and yellow squash - they keep producing blossoms but not fruit. I don't know if I'm not getting enough pollination, or if the flowers are getting eaten or knocked off by the birds or what. Hopefully some of the blossoms I have now will prove more productive.
This is the littlest of my tomatoes, the "Lemon Boy" It's a plum tomato shaped fruit, and I hope it's as interesting as the name would indicate.
This is the second biggest tomato, type "Marglobe". He's doing very well.
This is the biggest one - I think it's a Brandywine. You can't see all the fruit on it, but he's HUGE! The marglobe is in the background here.
This is the Brandywine from the other side.
Little tiny yellow squash!
Even tinier cucumber! I left my fingers in the one for the perspective. There's one this size on each little plant.
Sadly, the weeds were flourishing just as strongly after all the rain, so I also got to spend about an hour out there weeding this afternoon. At least it's nice and cool today.
My tomatoes continue to grow very strongly. The two that were already big are now enormous (!5 on one, 7 on the other and countless new flowers as well). The two that were littler seem to be trying to catch up. The 3 biggest now has 3 or 4 fruit and a bunch of flowers. The little one still only has the one fruit, but seems to be recovering from the trauma to it's main stem and is sending up new leave shoots. Time will tell if he's going to produce any more than his one tomato. I hope so, because his variety name is interesting (Lemon Boy) and I haven't been able to find that cultivar name anywhere (It is entirely possibe he was labelled badly, of course).
I finally have fruit on one of my yellow squash plants, and two itty-bitty cucumbers growing on the cucmumber plants. The pepper plants are finally showing some evidence of life, and so are the eggplants. I'm really starting to think the "acorn squash" was mislabelled as they seem awfully productive for a "winter squash" and look an awful lot like the zucchini and yellow squash plants. Whatever that is in particular, it's trying to overtake the pepper plants, throwing out very long vines with blossom buds all along the vines. I'm wondering at the zucchini and yellow squash - they keep producing blossoms but not fruit. I don't know if I'm not getting enough pollination, or if the flowers are getting eaten or knocked off by the birds or what. Hopefully some of the blossoms I have now will prove more productive.
This is the littlest of my tomatoes, the "Lemon Boy" It's a plum tomato shaped fruit, and I hope it's as interesting as the name would indicate.
This is the second biggest tomato, type "Marglobe". He's doing very well.
This is the biggest one - I think it's a Brandywine. You can't see all the fruit on it, but he's HUGE! The marglobe is in the background here.
This is the Brandywine from the other side.
Little tiny yellow squash!
Even tinier cucumber! I left my fingers in the one for the perspective. There's one this size on each little plant.
Sadly, the weeds were flourishing just as strongly after all the rain, so I also got to spend about an hour out there weeding this afternoon. At least it's nice and cool today.
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Thanks for the flashbacks!
Date: 2002-07-20 09:51 pm (UTC)When I was in HS, my mom had some tomato plants. (So, this has been close to 15 years.) I hadn't really thought about tomato-growing since then. However, when I saw the pic of the Marglobes, I could *smell* the tomato plants.
Re: Thanks for the flashbacks!
Date: 2002-07-22 10:30 am (UTC)I'm glad you liked them. Don't them smell wonderful? So green and happy and alive?