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Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:33 am

Your tomatoes look amazing! What variety is the one on the bottom left? Very nice.

I agree with you about shishitos - been there, done that. And, what are the yellow peppers on the table below the shits? Some kind of funky jalapeno?

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Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:56 pm

That yellow pepper is Lemon Drop.

Has more flesh than Shishito so I preferred L.D. Some heat with the seed and membranes intact. Mild and crunchy when they are removed. I like sweet yellow peppers-these aren’t sweet but I did sauté them with onions for a dish. Easy to grow.

The tomatoes on the left are Brandywise and Tomimaru Muchoo. TM is prolific and mild flavored. BW - waiting for more to ripen.
(Thanks Barb, I am so surprised we got any tomatoes at all.)

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Thu Feb 11, 2021 2:15 pm

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The scotch bonnets are taking forever to produce. Lots of flowers and tiny peppers but the other peppers ( shishito , Aleppo , lemon drop) have
already produced and been picked once. Corno di toro (branch broke off so lost a few) waiting a long time for these to ripen to red. The early EarthBoxes look like death with a lot of tomatoes hanging on. Earthboxes we planted after flood look great as do most of the
other tomatoes in raised beds and containers.


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Yes, there are lots of tomatoes in that hidden jungle. Mountain Magic.
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Thu Feb 11, 2021 2:23 pm

So nice to see during our down time. It warms up the day a bit.

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Thu Feb 11, 2021 2:39 pm

Seeing those pics one would think it's the middle of summer. Beautiful veggies! Thanks so much for providing that bright ray of sunshine on this dreary day. :D

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Thu Feb 11, 2021 3:08 pm

You’re welcome. And while you all are enjoying your summer season and posting great pics
we are swatting mosquitoes in unbearable heat with drenching downpours. 🥵🦟☔️
No tomatoes in our hot, buggy, rainy season.

Still miss changing seasons (gorgeous fall and snowy landscapes) and ‘bracing’ 🥶 cold weather but after many many years down here I think it would be hard to go back , particularly, shoveling snow.
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Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:37 am

Wow is that Iceberg lettuce in that 1st pic :o How do you manage to grow that at the same time as tomatoes? I could never do that here unless, of course, I grew tomatoes in winter. Which I have, but then in the cold they wouldn't grow as much as in summer. And yet you are growing all these warm weather crops along with that gorgeous lettuce! What is your secret?
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Sat Feb 13, 2021 10:37 pm

Peebee, It is a balancing act in South Florida trying to grow in fall and winter. At times either it is too hot for cool weather crops and too cool for warm loving crops. When it is too hot lettuces can get bitter. I also find if you let it go too long before picking the flavor can go south. This was my last one and I usually don’t let it get so big. I refrigerated it and it’s not bitter so I lucked out. I just had some romaine that got bitter on me. Earlier ones I harvested were delicious. I couldn’t use up all the arugula fast enough so when some of it got old it tasted like a bad hot radish. I usually just put anything past it’s prime in compost pile— it doesn’t make it up to the house.
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Sat Feb 13, 2021 11:06 pm

Talvez F1 ( Artisan Seeds). Very unusual flavor to me. Strong, bold. Loved it. Talvez would also be great to add to a mix of tomatoes for sauce.
Prolific, seems to be holding its own against diseases. Medium size.

Feb 13, 21. (Organically grown)
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Sat Feb 13, 2021 11:25 pm

Peacock sees his reflection in sliding glass door. Moves in close , than leaps in the air and pounds his chest into the glass. Over and over again.
I have had one that screeched that peacock scream every time he banged his body into the door but this one didn’t yell.


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Sat Feb 13, 2021 11:38 pm

You have peacocks yet your garden is lush with vegetables! Don't they eat your seedlings and/or veggies and fruits? A friend lives where there are peacocks everywhere, and she gardens in cages now after several years of trying to grow anything.
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Sun Feb 14, 2021 12:14 am

My peacocks don’t like to eat tomatoes 🥳. (Little birds do FAR MORE damage.)

They leave my pepper plants and celery alone too.

I do have to rig up fencing around lettuces and brassicas strictly because of peacocks. They also have eaten bean leaves (of very young plants) as well in past.
But for some reason this year they are not eating my bush bean which are wide open to them strolling in. I didn’t grow any brassicas (broccoli,etc) which they love.
Learned to live with them and we never fail to marvel at those stunning fluorescent feathers. Some of my neighbors can’t stand them as they peck their shiny cars.

Tons of beans and they haven’t bothered them. 🤞
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Sun Feb 14, 2021 12:57 pm

DH brought this in. Had to look it up— the internet is a wonderful thing. Hung the leaf back outside on another ( but different) papaya with
a clothespin. (As I wasn’t sure if they had hatched out or not.)

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Sun Feb 14, 2021 5:24 pm

One on right. I grew Big Beef once, not sure when, maybe 15 years ago or ? But so many people plant it every year and I saw a Bonnie plant at Lowe’s , thought I’d try it again. Just picked all the disease leaves off of it. Maybe 30 tomatoes, more blooms on top but disease will wipe it out first.

On the left. Mislabeled, I think it is Mountain Magic . I don’t think it has been watered so much. The ground was really dry. Great++ flavor. Love MM.
Picked a lot of ripe ones off of it.
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I just spotted him and I thought he was leaving the garden alone.
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That peacock did peck a few bean leaves but mainly after a mixed greens mix that had been harvested but came up again. But he wasn’t devouring them either.
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Picked this evening. Only know 2 carbons in front left, rest came from raised beds.
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Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:54 pm

Elaine - your earthboxes look great. Mine not so much; My plants got so huge and tons of cold wind -the stems toppled over the cages - right angles cutting off the stems. I'm growing Talvez as well. I had a lot of productivity; but not the plant is getting Septoria I think. Lots of bad leaves.

I also grew Magic Mountain and the plants in the EB really had severe cage topple; I plan on taking it down this week. The root pouch plant is massive and looks so much better.

Here's an oddity - Mango blooms / Cauliflower
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Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:26 am

Barb, Looks like a really nice cauliflower. Hope you get a lot of mangoes. With mangoes, I get blooms but they drop off- maybe this year the newer trees may produce. Must be hard to deal with that cold wind. It is hard to keep everything upright. I don’t like cold temps even when it is just in low 50s.

I get that bending over of stems at right angles too when the tomatoes get so tall and when there is no cage to tie them to they kink over. I guess people , gulp, top them off. I never do that as that is against the idea of getting the tallest plant you possibly can. 😀

Hope you got some tomatoes to ripen before all the diseases and colder temps kicked in. I find the flavor all over the place even off the same plant. Super productive year despite that flooding.

My earthboxes planted out first are all completely diseased. Want them gone but they have pathetic looking tomatoes still hanging on. I think the diseases started just a tad earlier than usual due to the flooding but without fail every year (as you know) the diseases start and decimate the plants pretty quickly. The 5 earthboxes that I planted much later (after flood) with mountain magic still look great. The other plants in containers and raised beds are hanging in there with tons of tomatoes but the diseases are rearing up there too. They get worse daily. But I am getting boxes of tomatoes every day to be given away or cooked for sauce. Many of them are huge. ( Ssshhh 🤫 I am getting totally tomatoed-out.) Also barely keeping up with the beans now- need a ladder to get them. You don’t need a ladder for the bush beans but they kill your back picking them. Next time I will plant the rows far apart enough to straddle a chair over them-that’s how decrepit we are getting.

One thing I did wrong was not planting enough Juliets or Verona ( Juliets better cousin). Last year I had 10 ? Juliets. I think I only ended up with one Juliet in the badly flooded area. I need them to give away as people love that tomato and I don’t have any. Also I don’t have tons to dehydrate and I really miss that. I tried Verona and it does taste better than Juliet but not sure it is as productive but it is hard to tell with such a crazy year. Next year I will do more of both of them to compare.


Yesterday. Verona ( better tasting and bigger than Juliet, also maybe not as firm? )
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Mon Feb 15, 2021 10:56 am

Just picked- I will add labels when I have more time. Organically grown.
The biggest tomato is 1 pound 7 oz.—pretty one on the far left.
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Going to DH’s Dr. who has family of Syrian heritage though he is from Jamaica.
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Filling boxes and bags. Will take a few i haven’t tried to taste.
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Have to redo it.
Here are labels for most of them. Polaris (Artisan Seeds) (7 large ones in front) - in the EarthBox flavor was mostly tart, in the ground - tomatoey and very good . High production of very large tomatoes. Largest 1 # 7 oz. Seems to be tolerant of diseases. Agi-Red (Artisan Seeds)- very good sweet, cocktail size tomato. Seems to be Tolerant of diseases. Ditto Talvez- (Artisan Seeds)
bold flavor, productive. Big Beef - need to try a few more. Black from TULA (not shown) really sweet 😍 but from a plant that was in a lousy location and did poorly so will grow again.
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MsCowpea wrote: Sun Feb 14, 2021 12:57 pm DH brought this in. Had to look it up— the internet is a wonderful thing. Hung the leaf back outside on another ( but different) papaya with
a clothespin. (As I wasn’t sure if they had hatched out or not.)

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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing, love learning new things.
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Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:24 pm

So nice to have flowers in the garden isn't it? I'm so sick of rocks gravel succulents cacti in the landscapes around here, I've resolved to grow as many flowers as I can this year, drought be damned. I know how to conserve water & how to use gray water from indoor use, so I can't wait till the flowers are ready. Nice zinnias [mention]MsCowpea[/mention] :)
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