Dawn's garden, 2021

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Thu Jul 15, 2021 5:26 pm

A few of my tomatoes have recovered from the weather and dog issues, but they're far behind. That'll be ok, as long as I get some eventually. Doing good right now: Stump of the World, Brandywine, KBX, Red Lithium, Midnight Sun, Rainbow Jazz Heart, and a few others, I can't recall.

I wanted to share this picture because it is an experiment. I took a bunch of my extra plants and planted them everywhere. I decided to see what would happen if I topped them in an attempt to make tomato bushes, I had no intention of staking or caging these tomatoes. This corner is where my old compost pile was, so it makes sense that plants would like it. I've also found that in the blistering heat that we have here, tomatoes don't actually love full sun. They grow faster in the spring, but by fall, my shaded plants are in much better shape. Anyway, look at my pretty tomato bushes 😊🀣. They look small but are about 3 feet tall. Each "bush" is 2 or 3 plants. I'm starting to wonder about planting them close and topping them, they'd hold each other up and crowd out the weeds, keeping the ground shaded and retaining water. Picking might be difficult.
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Bonus picture of new growth on my previously dead Flavor King Pluot tree
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Thu Jul 15, 2021 7:43 pm

Go, pluot! Never say die.

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Sat Jul 24, 2021 8:41 pm

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Feeling optimistic again. The plants are recovering from the crazy weather. We have tomato plants growing again and now covered in flowers. Squash is putting out little baby squashes, and I found a buttercup squash. The one I thought was pie pumpkin isn't. It has the coloring of a turban squash, without the turban, so maybe a hybrid. Luffa is vining. I don't expect much from it, but hopefully it'll make pretty vines. My lipstick pepper turned out to be bell peppers, which I hate growing, but they're not growing anyway, so whatever 🀣. The Thai chili peppers are growing, though.

New raised beds will go in for next year.
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Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:01 pm

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They look a little rough, but they look amaizing to me. There are a few more tomatoes that got started before the heat wave, and will ripen soon, but most of my plants are in flower stage. It's kinda crazy.

Big one is Midnight Sun, small one is Galina's, stripey one is red Lithium, other one is Stump of the World.

(Little long red one is Thai chili)
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Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:29 pm

I bought a cheap sprinkler hose on amazon that didn't work where I needed it, so I ended up putting it in with my trees and blackberries and that tomato corner, but I flipped it over so the water was going into the dirt. This has worked amazingly well, everything on that line is thriving. I used a sprinkler for the rest, but it wasn't getting my boysenberries very well. I've been looking for soaker or sprinkler hoses locally, the one I have is 50 feet and not extendable. I figured 100 get would get everything perfectly. Then I realized I could probably just poke holes in a regular hose. The more I thought about it, the better the idea became, because I can target where the holes are. So I got 2 50 foot hoses on my way home from work today, and went about placing them to hit every plant, and it worked perfectly. I put an end cap and hooked it up. That's all far as I'll go today, because it's 105 degrees today and I think I already over did it, I don't handle heat well. I think I'll try and do the rest tonight.

While weaving the hose under and around the tomatoes in the corner, I found several nice looking pretty decent sized fruit. There are a lot on a plant with no tag. I think they're Rainbow Jazz Heart. There are also some stumps that are much larger than the first. Looks like I'll have a tomato season, just a little later.
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Fri Jul 30, 2021 10:38 pm

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Decided to cut into that Midnight Sun. I probably could have given it another day or 2, but it was delicious! πŸ˜‹
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Sun Aug 01, 2021 10:47 am

The shape of that midnight sun is awesome, looks like a mango
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Sun Aug 01, 2021 1:43 pm

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My baby mulberry tree. I decided to let it grow where it's growing, because it's in a good spot. Just gotta keep it pruned so it doesn't get too huge. It's doing well. I first identified it with my plant app, then asked on some gardening groups. They confirmed. Then checked this picture against plant app again and still says Black Mulberry. It was unexpected because you just don't often see mulberry trees around here.

My grass is dead on purpose. My sister had the idea to turn our crappy grass and weed front lawn into a wild flower meadow. Not true wildflowers, just gonna till it up in fall and again in spring and throw down all the flower seeds I've acquired over the years. And make some stone paths. Should be pretty. So instead of trying to kill the grass, we stopped watering and let the relentless heat do the work.
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