Worldwide Beekeeping
Sustainable Living => Gardening => Topic started by: Wandering Man on November 05, 2016, 07:39:25 pm
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She says these are the tallest, straightest tomato plants she's ever grown! She planted from seeds this year, rather than sets. But the bees seem to have been doing their job in pollinating.
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The Broccoli and Bell Peppers are coming along, too!
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Great looking garden! Thanks for posting the pictures.
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When I had a garden I had no time for bees. Now I have bees I had no time for a garden. But we will overcome and have more bees and big garden next year. :yes:
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When were those pictures taken? We had a chances of "mixed precipitation" today! :o
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I took the pics about three hours before I posted them.
And it rained before we got back inside.
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That looks like our garden, 3 months ago! :o :laugh: :laugh:
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Mine too Perry. Still got parsley and carrots going under a row cover. Hoping to have carrots for Thanksgiving and parsley for the stuffing.
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When were those pictures taken? We had a chances of "mixed precipitation" today! :o
Kathy was planting in September for this garden.
Everything from the Spring garden was dead by August. Probably picked the last of the tomatoes in June or July.
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Yep same here, tomatoes and anything else pretty much cooks in July to September here when temps average 105F or so. We plant again in October or November depending on cool off time.
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This is the first year in a long time, decades, that I didn't have a spring/summer garden. I already have next years garden prepared. All I have to do in plant.
In our area, pepper plants are pest free and will live from April until our first frost in November. They are the most rewarding of all garden plants in our area.
I have raised tomatoes many years, and I don't ever remember seeing honey bee on them. Lots of flies and small wasp hang around the blooms, but not honey bees.
lazy
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This is the first year in a long time, decades, that I didn't have a spring/summer garden. I already have next years garden prepared. All I have to do in plant.
In our area, pepper plants are pest free and will live from April until our first frost in November. They are the most rewarding of all garden plants in our area.
I have raised tomatoes many years, and I don't ever remember seeing honey bee on them. Lots of flies and small wasp hang around the blooms, but not honey bees.
lazy
I asked Wife, and she agrees. She hasn't seen many bees out in the garden.
I guess I should just give the credit to her,
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I opened the pictures and then increased their size---studied them carefully and closed them down to read through the posts on the thread. As I was reading the various posts, I started smelling something funny so I stopped reading to figure out what it was----you won't believe this, but after a moment of sniffing I realized that I was "smelling" tomato plants. :o :yes:
Amazing, how the eyes can activate the brain's sense of smell.
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Wow!
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Her biggest problem right now is that something is chewing the buds off of her bell peppers. She put out diatomacious earth, and that slowed it down, but didn't stop it. The local nursery said it was worms and gave her something "organic" to spray. The critters seemed to enjoy eating he peppers even more. Yesterday she found a grasshopper gnawing on the plants. She flicked it off. Then she realized that was the culprit.
So she went back out, garden scissors in hand, and tracked him down. She cut him in half. She's been using this same technique on the caterpillars that have been munching on the Tomato plants.
She came back in after killing the grasshopper and announced that she did not believe she would make a very good murderer. She didn't like how it felt when she cut the grasshopper in half.
I didn't realize she had even been contemplating such a career.
And I didn't point out that she killed the grasshopper, despite her concerns. Not to mention countless caterpillars.
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I'm going to start sleeping with one eye open ....
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Sprinkle all the plants with white lime powder and all the bugs will be gone.....................................................Except maybe you.
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We had a high of 80 degrees yesterday with high winds. The the blue norther hit around midnight. Still windy this morning, and the thermometer says it's 32 this morning. It wasn't supposed to freeze, so we didn't cover the tomato plants.
This might be the last of the harvest!
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You got the red ones, but if there are any green ones on the vine you can always pickle them.
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Kathy's not a big fan of green tomatoes. But we have friends who love them.
We'll be back out later today to pull everything that looks pickable.
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I love pickled green tomatoes. You can also dip them in flour and fry them. hmmmmmmm..............
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Fried green tomatoes are a treat.
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Well, the garden is covered about as well as we can get it covered. The wind is not being kind.
Kathy is convinced there will still be tomatoes worth picking when our temps climb back up into the 50's on Tuesday.
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HELP!
The plants are dying, so Wife is picking. She thinks she is about half-way through. I need some tomato eaters to come to South Texas and pick up a few tomatoes!
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As an added enticement, the temps are in the 50's. Wife said she did have the company of a few bees in the garden while picking. Maybe we have tomato loving bees?
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nice harvest!
what are you going to do with them?
like cbt, i like fried green tomatoes. you can also use them to make enchilada sauce or salsa, or even pasta sauce!
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She stopped picking at 400 tomatoes.
A neighbor across the street took a bunch for salsa. They came for tomatoes, and left dreaming about beekeeping.
We gave a few to another neighbor, after the first neighbor advised us he loves tomatoes. A third neighbor works in the produce department of a grocery store. He took three, and explained that the store won't buy tomatoes without a contract and liability insurance.
We've got some set aside for our kids when we visit in the Frt Worth area later this week.
We've got a few promised to some friends.
I'm guessing we only have another 250 tomatoes to deal with!
Maybe the food bank, or Christ's Kitchen to feed the homeless?
Those of you who don't want to drive to Nova Scotia for mead are welcome to drive to South Texas for tomatoes. They should be ripe by the time you get here!
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we had a great harvest this year of red mators, romas and other. between roasting them, using a blender, freezing, and canning, we have tomatoes for salsa, salsa verde, enchilada sauce and pasta sauce, etc..... gave plenty away....!
the other night i took out a small frozen package of romas i had roasted on the grill, cut/chopped, thrown in a zippy. made stuffed chicken breasts with cheese, canadian bacon, the roma's mixed with some roasted anaheims on top, more cheese......hmm, hmmm! served up with corn tortillas stuffed with olives, cheese and onions (leftovers in the fridge), warmed in the oven......... excellent!
if i was in texas, i'd be paying a visit to you for some of those green tomatoes!