Doodads — tomato, prickly pear propagation, fermenting, witch hazel, oh my

There are still pics from Tuesday at fmg but they will have to wait.  Instead, the focus of this post will be tomatoes, prickly pear propagation, more fermentation, and status of the witch hazel bushes. Tomatoes It’s been an ongoing experiment with the purple reign tomatoes.  The reviews that said they produced dwarf tomatoes is…

The Daily Prompt — Black — Soil and PJ

image link The first thing that comes to mind with the word Black is Eddie Vedder mournfully wailing about his lost love.  More about that later. The next thing is soil.  Connected to yesterday’s prompt, neophyte, before I knew anything about gardening, my belief was that the blacker the soil was the better it was…

Day — OctWriPoMo — Shared Love

All of my hosta doubled this year My Rose of Sharon hit 6 feet this summer The peonies were so fragrant The marigolds took over the patch by the garage I started some red pine from seeds! Those iris rhizomes you gave me all bloomed! The tomato seeds from the heirlooms all sprouted The lilacs…