blissful
Master Chef
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Pepper, you bring out my envy, I need to get a hold of that. Beautiful stuff.
blissful, Glad you're back! With 117 tomatoes, I'm sure you will catch up! I only have 27, though I have a bunch of new ones, to try out this year, as always.
We're getting steady zucchini and cucumbers now, plus purple beans, lettuce, kale.
There are tons of tomatoes on the vines, but nothing ripe yet. I suspect they will all ripen up while we are away camping next week.
My hot peppers are now all taking off a lot. I've harvested a dozen or so banana peppers, but have lots of ghost, reaper, and cayanne peppers on the plants. My overwintered Paraguayan pepper plants are huge this year, with many dozen peppers forming.
Figs just started to form fruit, and grapes look really good, in spite of the Japanese beetles.
Kids are picking from the raspberry bushes daily, blackberries will be ripening next week.
Greenenvy22, you are bringing on my green envy. You are north of us and it looks like you are somehow ahead of us in harvest. I have lettuce, kale, a few zucchini as of yesterday and the day before.
The japanese beetles are there but not in big numbers and not doing a lot of leaf damage here, just a little.
I'm happy for you and thank you for sharing pictures.
I envy all of you growing outdoors. Climate inside my 250 square foot apartment isn't much of a factor.
Took most of the two oldest baby bok choys that had flowered and a few of leaves of green onion that reached the lights.
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Here's how they were planted from kitchen scraps.
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Hoping the bok choy will send up new shoots.
The onion leaves were like hollow straws top to bottom. Wondering if later leaves will improve. Looking forward to home-grown turnip leaves. Will start beet root tops the same way soon.
Bulb onions or green onions / scallions? I had scallions growing outdoors. I harvested them by cutting, rather than pulling them up. They came back every spring for many years. They always just came back as hollow tubes, but still tasty.
Scallions. As it is now, I only have about one foot of growing space below the lights. Figured scallions might be the only oniony thing that'd work.
If all I'm gonna get is hollow tubes then that's where the beets need to go.
Thanks, Taxy
And now on the the exotics ( at least for me)
I really thought id get a pineapple this year, but I guess the plant had another thing in mind. Looks healthy. Ill keep it going outside , then bring it in for the winter.
Man, you are dedicated! But, Larry, I thought pineapples were either boys or girls. Don't you need two? or do they develop on the same plant.