Garden 2025

[blissful]

Well, it seems nothing is going to ripen my black tomatoes. There are a good few of them but they are stubbornly hard. I think I am now at the point where there simply won't be enough sun to ripen them and they are going to rot. Is there any way of ripening them after picking?

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Black tomatoes are difficult in my experience. I've grown black ones and they are hard to tell between just ripe and black, and starting to rot.
I'm growing some yellow with purple/black tops and they are slow to ripen too.
Once a tomato turns from green to ...begin turning to its intended color, it'll ripen off the vine, and it isn't necessary to put them in the sun. I put mine in a box (same with peppers) and then take them out as they ripen.

 

[caseydog]

I don't mind them... outside but it is instant death should they come in the house!

On the farm we had a deal. I would leave them alone in the corners of the field stone basement and on the logs overhead IF they did not come upstairs.

It is fall and many crawlies are looking for a nice place to winter..
One thing when they crawl and you can catch them. It's when they suddenly fly/jump. They hit like BB pellets!
View attachment 76284 View attachment 76285 both of these type stink if you squash them. Or in the vacuum - horrible!
During the winter on really warm sunny days the would come crawling out from the woodwork or where ever the hunkered down. With my wood burning stove I could snatch them up with a tissue and toss them in. Poof!
the second one is really slow crawling (can still fly) - I kept a pair of scissors handy and beheaded them, one snip - then toss outside or garbage.

We have that bug on the left here. They are called "stink bugs," for obvious reasons.

CD

 

[taxlady]

You deserve it! Both of you!

+1

 

[taxlady]

About ripening tomatoes off the vine - I would imagine that putting them in a bag with an apple or something else that gives off ethylene gas would help them ripen. Heck, just putting them in a bag and close the bag should help keep ethylene gas in the bag to ripen the tomatoes. It works with other fruit, so I don't see why it wouldn't work with tomatoes.

 

[caseydog]

About ripening tomatoes off the vine - I would imagine that putting them in a bag with an apple or something else that gives off ethylene gas would help them ripen. Heck, just putting them in a bag and close the bag should help keep ethylene gas in the bag to ripen the tomatoes. It works with other fruit, so I don't see why it wouldn't work with tomatoes.

Put them in a paper bag with a banana. Bananas put off a lot of ethylene gas. Use a paper bag, not a plastic bag or container.

CD

 

[taxlady]

Bananas put off a lot of ethylene gas.

So do apples.

 

[caseydog]

So do apples.

In plastic or paper bags?

CD

 

[larry_stewart]

I put my unripe tomatoes in shallow cardboard boxes/ trays, then cover with a dish towel to keep fruit flies away, and the usually ripen within a few days ( depending on how unripe I pick them). The only thing that disturbs them is my cat using it as a bed, luckily he lays on the tray with the more firm, unripe ones . Ive been purposely picking my tomatoes a few days earlier, so I get them before the birds.

 

[taxlady]

In plastic or paper bags?

CD

It's probably better to put them in paper bags, but the apples give off the ethylene gas whether they are in a plastic or a paper bag.

 

[rodentraiser]

Jays are corvids - related to crows and ravens. I hope they don't decide to get revenge on you for that netting.

One got in the house and spread feathers everywhere before I caught it and then in gratefulness, it tried to bite me. I almost gave it to the cat.

 

[rodentraiser]

My rose is on its second blooming. Check out all the buds. And there's several more branches that have multiple buds on them.

It's a little blurry because I was too close. I'm very proud of my rose. So naturally, when all those buds bloom, you guys will get another picture.

 

[Rocklobster]

Last job of the year. Just planted 375 cloves of garlic. Covered in our maple leaves...

 

[larry_stewart]

Last job of the year. Just planted 375 cloves of garlic. Covered in our maple leaves...

Nice!
You're week or two ahead of me.
Just cleared the garden where I will plant them.
Looks like Ill be in the 175 - 200 clove range
Cant wait to plan the garlic.After that, planning 2026 garden begins .

 

[Rocklobster]

We're in a different zone than you, I think. We are getting frost now. I built a greenhouse this year so I have to figure out how to use it. lol

 

[dragnlaw]

My neighbour put a candle under an overturned clay pot - several around the greenhouse. Gave her an extra month.

 

[Kathleen]

I still have peppers and tomatoes coming in! Perhaps another week or two before we get frost. Yes, I bought more garlic to break my heart. I hope to put it in this coming week.

 

[rodentraiser]

So this has been a couple weeks, but I got this pic when all the roses bloomed. There's three branches with multiple buds and blooms on it, but this one was the prettiest.

 

[blissful]

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[blissful]

@dragnlaw I know wasn't that the funniest? lol.

 

[dragnlaw]

It was! I could feel the vibrations I bet that made on her lips! So sorry we've pulled all the vines already!