It’s July and I only just put in the summer veggies…. But most of them will still keep going until almost Christmas in our climate so it’s not too late!
Tag: #tomato
Fava bean harvest
Finally got fed up with the fava beans shading out the tomatoes and took them out.
Lots of work but very tasty!
Last tomato harvest of the 2022 growing season?
I picked all of the tomatoes left on the vines, no matter how green. Plenty of them were split and rotting because of all the rain we’re getting. The ones that were reasonably ripe I cooked into a soup with ramen, and the few green basil leaves I had left, and some onion. These greentomatoes are all that’s left; should I fry them or try to ripen them? I also saved some cuttings from the tomatoes and basil plants which I’m going to try to propagate to get a head start on the 2023 garden
The sky is leaking! First rain in months!
First rain we’ve had in many months here in california … The tomatoes in my garden have never experienced this exotic form of watering!
Delicious tomatoes ready to pick in the garden
Thanks @nextlevelgardening for the hook and string method!
Summer harvest: tomatoes, basil, beans, and more
Harvested a bunch of tomatoes, basil, beans, and other delights from the garden.
Baby tomatoes coming along nicely!
I pruned back the tomato plants so that the bottom leaves wont die from powdery mildew and now you can really see how many baby tomatoes we have coming along!
Very excited to harvest them from the garden soon! We’ve already eaten about a half dozen tomatoes that came right so far.
This weekend I built a new trellis for the tomatoes!
Constructed from 4 2x4s and a piece of ladder mesh truss, this is arguably the only structure on the entire property that is actually plumb and level.
The back row has 10 plants and the front row has six, all different indeterminate varieties. I am pruning them as a single vine up a string. Each one has its own string and hook so that when the plant reaches the top I could let out some string and let them keep growing!
Thanks to @nextlevelgardening for the strings and hooks and great videos explaining how! This is my first time growing tomatoes this way and I’m excited about how big they might get.
Garden is doing well!
tomatoes beginning to bloom, our first ripe strawberry, corn starting to make pollen, and our greenhouse full of spares. We’ve also got lots more veggies coming in soon