The Endzone Garden Thread

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GVF said:
something a gardener must accept. lol..

But, I get a bit mental when protecting my maters and the family historical green bean.. I wait all year to grow my heirloom maters.
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I think you posted this back in the day, but how many tomato varieties (especially heirlooms) did you plant this year, and how many individual plants of each? I know you have a ton more space than I do!
 
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Leaf damage from the ground up suggests either insect damage low on the stem or in the roots, or fungal infection possibly from rainfall splashing off the soil and spreading upward.

And of course, the fun part is that often damage from one source weakens the plant enough that other threats move in. So disease weakens a plant enough that it can’t fight back as well against insects, or insects weaken a plant enough that disease gains a foothold. Plus other sources like temperature/rainfall/sun, operator error by the gardener, neighbor getting frisky with Roundup on a windy day, dogs hiking legs, moles and voles…

It’s open warfare out there!
 
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VolNExile said:
I think you posted this back in the day, but how many tomato varieties (especially heirlooms) did you plant this year, and how many individual plants of each? I know you have a ton more space than I do!
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I planted 10 different varieties. 1 of each. Just fishing for what grows well for me here, then i may cull it a bit and do more than one plant.

1884 - Red. Doing ok, but I was expecting more out of it. Good sized fruit. Good combination of sweet and old fashion flavor.
San Marzano Redorta (Large Variety San Marzano) - Red. Going crazy and loaded to the gills. Most excellent paste tomato flavor. Better than regular San Marzano. It's also right next to the 1884, so it may be stealing some thunder. If you like growing paste tomatoes for sauces, this is the one to do multiple plantings. You will be giving them away.
Peach Tomato - Orange and slightly fuzzy like a peach. Bearing well. Was expecting a little bit larger fruit. Excellent flavor though.
Dwarf Velvet Night Cherry - Chocolate/Red/Purple color. Almost ping pong ball size cherry. Bears very well. Like the flavor.
Dwarf Purple Reign - Dark Red/Purple. Bearing quite well. Insane flavor. Flipped my lid. Tied for my fav so far.
Dwarf Tasmanian Chocolate - Just now coming on with the production. Sliced my first two ripe ones onto the tomato tart. Worth the planting for flavor.
Mila - Yellow/Orande color. Smaller fruit. Shaped like yellow straight neck squash. A unique tomato to plant just cause. And good flavor.
Thorburns Terra Cotta - Terra Cotta colored skin actually. Very unique coloring inside and out. Producing above average. Also insane flavor. Tied with Purple Reign for me.
Costoluto Genovese - Red. Seems to be bearing well, but I think my fruits are seriously under sized for some reason. More old faashioned flavor. I'll probably try again to make sure this was a fluke season for it.
A Grappoli D'Inverno - Red. Heavy bearer for me so far. slightly large grape tomato. Multiple uses. Really good flavor.

Tomato bearing for me just really kicked in the last week or so. They will be close to peaking while I'm gone next week probably. So, plant productivity opinions could change. Looks might I may get a bit longer production this season as well. My best tomato growing in several years. I ditched the cages this year and put up posts and did the twine boxing/weaving. Maybe that has helped my plants. I also put about 1/2 pond worm dirst in each hole when planting this year.

If I had your garden, It'd be almost exclusively Tomatoes, squash, green beans and okra. Then some fall stuff. Maybe a couple melons. But, I suck at watermelons. And my cantelope have about 200 blooms and no fruit. Bush Butternut doing well. Cucmber was my best effort yet. WEnt crazy, then got that bug thing. In a matter of days went from lush green loaded vines to the leaves like those above a few posts.
 
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The Costolutos were the only slicers I didn’t massacre. I’ll plant them again, and next year they’ll be in a better location in terms of sun. Rutgers VF sure didn’t seem resistant to either V or F, but a decent crop of small-med fruit, very tasty. I have a ton of Stupice, campari-sized tomatoes, just wrong to be right size-wise. SunGold cherries went berserk; I picked and used a lot. More on the vine ripening and some flowers still.

The determinates are definitely the winners in terms of being prolific and bulletproof. San Marzanos (regular) just exploded, as did the Principe Borghese (drying/roasting.) The Romas are loaded and starting to ripen. And the Tiny Tims (patio cherry tomatoes) came through like the champs they are, despite heavy grazing by the grandson. I’m using them to make him his own vegan tomato tart (massive dairy and egg allergies.)

I’m in trouble. lol

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There are three sacred ways to consume okra - pickled, fried, cooked into a goo as part of the base for gumbo. Anything else you do with okra is profane.
 
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Speaking of bug sprays for the garden that are non-toxic, I used to make my own and I had decent luck with it.

I'd take any and all citrus waste from the house (lemon, orange, etc...) and place it in a nylon stocking. Tie off the stocking and place it a closable 5 gallon container with enough water to submerge the citrus completely. Set in the sun and let steep for a couple weeks.

Remove stocking and discard. Pour liquid in my pump sprayer and go to town on the little bastages. Stuff worked great against hard- shelled beetles. I also used it on the outside of my house during the annual Fall invasion of stink bugs or lady bugs, whichever the case was that particular year.
 
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friend of mine told me he pickled yellow squash
I have never done this or eaten pickled squash.
 
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