summer’s end callers (haiku) (after pic at end)

juicy rotund red flavorful characters call each summer’s end The quantity isn’t what it’s been in other years with Mortgage Lifter, but what has grown is large and so tasty. Eating this RIGHT NOW:

A2Z 2025 — Day 20 — Tomatoes and Turkeys

TomatoesTomatoes are food crops I have been growing for years now.  They are easy to start inside, and once they get planted they do their jobs without too much fuss.  I’ve had problems with soft spots (potassium deficiency) and tomato worms (ugliest things I’ve ever seen!) and unruliness (they go wild and fall over, limbs…

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…

Tomatoes, peppers, dawn redwood, oh my

It’s been a little bit since posting pics of the produce.  These were taken yesterday.  That bowl is about a foot across, and without weighing it, I am guessing full it weighs between 5-10#.  This is the 3rd big bowl of tomatoes harvested from the plants so far and it looks like there will be…

Gloss

This year I participated in our local library’s first ever implementation of a seed bank. They took those gorgeous wooden cabinets that held the cards people could use to find books and now use a computer screen instead and turned it into being a keeper of seed packets. They communicated with heirloom seed companies and…