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@gardenofweedin
Alas.
No garden for 2017.
I left the house in a scramble back in March after the living situation became untenable.
My Earthboxes are going to a friend so she can try them out without committing to $200 worth of equipment.
I’ll live vicariously through her and my Tumblr feed.
After dropping my daughter off in College Park for her freshman year of college (sob!), I decided to stop at Chanticleer Garden in Wayne PA on my way back to NY. Wow what a beautiful place!
State of the Garden: Late July 2016
Near-daily nighttime showers and storms have weathered the defenses of my plants to the point where the foliar diseases seem to be leaping upwards by inches every day. This is my perception, anyway; mid-season doldrums seem to be a thing among gardeners that grow tomatoes. The exhaustion of doing your best while watching your garden begin to fall apart is real.
That said, this year, I’m not ready to call it quits this early. There are plenty of plants that have resisted the and healthy, and I’ve still got weeks of production to go.
My stepdad accidentally broke one squash in half. I found out they grow adventitious roots like tomatoes do, so I planted the broken half, not really expecting much ... and it bounced back. Then I found out the rest of my plants save for one have been infected by squash vine borers, which explained why they stopped producing female flowers.Â
So, this morning, while dealing with the after-effects of a lousy undercooked chicken sandwich the night before, I located the borers in the squash plants and snapped the stems off where they hadn’t gotten to yet. Surprise, you jerks! I pulled out and killed any readily available larvae, then stomped on the stems before chucking them into the woods behind my house before planting the clean stem parts. It took about a week for the zucchini to set root, and we’re buckled in for the worst heat wave of the summer ... not much hope for them, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Tasting notes are as follows:
Green Giant: Balanced. Juicy. Meaty. Tiny seed locules. Amazing.
Dester: A slightly muted, drier version of Green Giant. Quite good.
Fred’s Tie Dye: Ehhhhhh. Balanced, but watery. Pretty in a caprese salad.
Sean’s Not Yellow Dwarf: Yuck.
Bendigo Blush F5: Very mild flavor, but it has promise. Plant is now dead.
Velvet Night, round two: Tart, intense flavor.
My most productive year.
EVEN MOAR
YEP. Tasting notes in the very near future.
Bendigo Blush F5, caprese salad. So, it’s not showing up in the photo, but Bendigo Blush is a legitimate pale-to-medium pink tomato. The flavor is good, but weak, though I’m not sure if that has to do with the fungal diseases slowly taking the plant.
Mutations plus Sungold.
The babies. With bonus dying PBTD, and healthy Sean’s Not Yellow Dwarf!
State of the Garden update later.
State of the Garden: June 30th 2016
I’m going to try to keep this short; today marks the onset and diagnosis of full-blown carpal tunnel syndrome.
Anything with Fafard Pro Potting Mix in it is lush, full, healthy and free of systemic soil-borne disease.
This is not true of the round pots with Kellogg’s and Dr. Earth’s potting mixes. I’ve lost Black Cherry, and am about to lose both the Mortgage Lifter x Summer Sunrise F2 (which I suspected might happen) and the Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye (which I had forgotten was a pot full of solely Kellogg’s). Willow Cherry and the two Chocolate Champion x Dw. Mr. Snows seem to be fine, for now.
I caught adult squash borers in the act of scouting out my pattypans. I’ll be spraying them down this evening. The rest of the garden overall is lush with growth and I can’t complain; there won’t be a full wipe this year before harvest.
Green Giant is far and away the most prolific true heirloom tomato I’ve yet grown. Can’t wait to try them.
Chocolate Champion x Dw Mr. Snow is clean.
This is now a liveblog as I slit each stem longitudinally and peel the epidermis back to see if I can observe the disease in my other plants in the only way that really seems to work.
Willow Cherry is clean.
Summer Sunrise x Mortgage Lifter F2 is clean-ish.
Spoke too soon. RIP Black Cherry, although I was always a little suspicious of your leggy growth.
I think six bags of Kellogg’s and Dr Earth went into the round pots by the house, so there’s a chance the others aren’t going to croak… But only a chance.
Updates: As of June 24th, 2016, I have lost no plants to disease.
:)
