How Does Your Garden Grow?

[quintessentone]

We've been busy gardening here. For my part, I took seeds from last year's black tomato plant (very hardy and meaty) and tried different methods of raising the seedlings. Four plants survived the best by just putting the seeds directly in seedling mix and monitoring them under plant grow lights. There are two tomato plants in one pot and another in the other pot, one other is in the ground, along with marigolds.



I also bought another plant, a cherry tomato plant which I will also collect seeds and see if I can successfully grow them next year. Here is the cherry tomato plant with fruit that needs to be picked now. The plant next to it is the young people's project.



Here is a pic of my projects 'on the go'. Strawberry plant, Rosemary with marigolds, 3 weeping Forsythia, and flats of Periwinkle groundcover. I also have planted a pink/purple/yellow Hydrangea in a planter and I'm monitoring it's location. It does not seem to like all the sun it's getting and I want to try to take cuttings either soon or in the late Fall. 

I/we have a lot of landscaping or rather trenching new beds for the Forsythia and Periwinkle design plans.

We also planted 3 new cedar trees in the front of the property and will be be building a noise/privacy barrier with cinder block, pressure treated posts, and resin/plastic privacy panels over 12 feet in length and over 8 feet high if I don't bury the cinder blocks, with English Ivy and I also have just purchased red Virginia Creeper seeds, which I will sow together for additional noise muffling effects, hopefully.



I also have a patch of somewhat invasive daylily plants that are moving fast so I bought myself a trencher/edger and now I've talked myself into edging many other new beds as well as edging the outer boundaries of the property. Why do I do this to myself? I'm an elderly person and this is a lot of work. Oh well, I may have my daughter do all the work because I've already suggested we dig up some of the daylilies and transplant them to a new bed after she said she wants more daylilies on the property ... well someone has to edge that new bed, just saying.



I think that is it for now, so off I go to pick those cherry tomatoes and put out DIY ant bait.

[Oldcarpy2]

I find that Brussels go particularly well with Mussels...

Cook them first in a big pot and then the Brussels in Mussel brae...

Absolute dogs bollocks.

I used to grow carrots, but they would always come out shaped like something from a horror movie.

As opposed to the standard tapered cylindrical shape we see in the shops...

Still tasted braw all the same...

Sprouts with Mussels?

An abomination.

Reminds me of my student days when I cooked a Sprout curry for the flat.

Not nice.

[andy06shake]

Sprouts with Mussels?

An abomination.

Reminds me of my student days when I cooked a Sprout curry for the flat.

Not nice.

Also, asparagus cooked in the brae, with loads of butter...

[Oldcarpy2]

Also, asparagus cooked in the brae, with loads of butter...

Reminds me, time to put the Sprouts on to boil for Christmas....

[andy06shake]

Reminds me, time to put the Sprouts on to boil for Christmas....

I can't go soft Sprouts, or for that matter, undercooked Sprouts, pernickety b@stard that i am. 

[andy06shake]

We've been busy gardening here. For my part, I took seeds from last year's black tomato plant (very hardy and meaty) and tried different methods of raising the seedlings. Four plants survived the best by just putting the seeds directly in seedling mix and monitoring them under plant grow lights. There are two tomato plants in one pot and another in the other pot, one other is in the ground, along with marigolds.

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I also bought another plant, a cherry tomato plant which I will also collect seeds and see if I can successfully grow them next year. Here is the cherry tomato plant with fruit that needs to be picked now. The plant next to it is the young people's project.

[Image: https://denyignorance.com/uploader/image...d17787.jpg]

Here is a pic of my projects 'on the go'. Strawberry plant, Rosemary with marigolds, 3 weeping Forsythia, and flats of Periwinkle groundcover. I also have planted a pink/purple/yellow Hydrangea in a planter and I'm monitoring it's location. It does not seem to like all the sun it's getting and I want to try to take cuttings either soon or in the late Fall. 

I/we have a lot of landscaping or rather trenching new beds for the Forsythia and Periwinkle design plans.

We also planted 3 new cedar trees in the front of the property and will be be building a noise/privacy barrier with cinder block, pressure treated posts, and resin/plastic privacy panels over 12 feet in length and over 8 feet high if I don't bury the cinder blocks, with English Ivy and I also have just purchased red Virginia Creeper seeds, which I will sow together for additional noise muffling effects, hopefully.

[Image: https://denyignorance.com/uploader/image...926a1a.jpg]

I also have a patch of somewhat invasive daylily plants that are moving fast so I bought myself a trencher/edger and now I've talked myself into edging many other new beds as well as edging the outer boundaries of the property. Why do I do this to myself? I'm an elderly person and this is a lot of work. Oh well, I may have my daughter do all the work because I've already suggested we dig up some of the daylilies and transplant them to a new bed after she said she wants more daylilies on the property ... well someone has to edge that new bed, just saying.

[Image: https://denyignorance.com/uploader/image...899488.jpg]

I think that is it for now, so off I go to pick those cherry tomatoes and put out DIY ant bait.

Looks great Quint.  

Ive got lots of indoor Cherry Tomatoes.



They are coming on a treat...

[quintessentone]

Looks great Quint.  

Ive got lots of indoor Cherry Tomatoes.

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They are coming on a treat...

I baked my cherry tomatoes on schnitzel in the oven, wow, talk about elevated taste.

Can you tell me how you prune your cherry tomato plant? I'm not too sure about exactly what to do because I read where pruning is tricky because it is easy to snip off a fruit-bearing branch.

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Old stoner pic.

[andy06shake]

I baked my cherry tomatoes on schnitzel in the oven, wow, talk about elevated taste.

Can you tell me how you prune your cherry tomato plant? I'm not too sure about exactly what to do because I read where pruning is tricky because it is easy to snip off a fruit-bearing branch.

I just remove the suckers.

The rule being never remove more than about a third of the plant.

Outside i don't prune tomatoes much.

My theory being, it's Scotland, they probably require the extra leaves, protection-wise from the elements.   

Last year, my outside tomatoes reached about 9ft, but we got hit by a really bad storm and had rather a few casualties.

[quintessentone]

I just remove the suckers.

The rule being never remove more than about a third of the plant.

Outside i don't prune tomatoes much.

My theory being, it's Scotland, they probably require the extra leaves, protection-wise from the elements.   

Last year, my outside tomatoes reached about 9ft, but we got hit by a really bad storm and had rather a few casualties.

I didn't prune my tomato plant last year either and the harvest was adequate so I think I'll just leave it to fend for itself with all it's protective branches and leaves and see what happens.

It is difficult to know how to manage plants what with weather being unpredictable.

[fiveandtwo]

I don’t know what happened but our tomatoes died. Right now we are in a heat wave so next week im going to clean out the beds and put the cages away for the year.  Even my potted flowers look sickly.  Im getting ready to go out to the back porch and water them.  They’ve gotten a good amount of rain so I don’t know what’s up.  

im curious if anyone else who was in the path of winter storm Fern is experiencing the same thing.