2022 Julianna: Better Late Than Never

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2022 Julianna: Better Late Than Never

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Post: # 71613Unread post Julianna
Mon Jun 13, 2022 2:35 am

So this year because of our trip, i am starting really late. I have seeded the following:

Wisconsin 55
Mrs Schlaubaugh’s Famous Strawberry
Blood moon
Amish Yellowish Orange Oxheart
Frog Princess
Reinhard Kraft’s Green when Ripe Heart
Homer German White Stripe
Reinhard Kraft’s Chocolate Heart
Lavender Lake
Whild Thyme Purple
Blue Ridge Mountain
Fatima

If i have any failures, i wont be replacing. We just found a ground squirrel in the yard which makes gophers and ground squirrels unwelcome helpers.

The flower garden is shaping up. We will see what comes of the rest.
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Fri Jun 24, 2022 11:30 pm

My seeds have sprouted. Babies are growing still very young without true leaves. Milk jug greenhouses are doing their job.

Not sure how this season will go. In theory, it could be amazing. However, with the main job for is getting shaky, there may be some applying overseas and if he were to get such a thing, we would have to move. In 2 months.

I am doing flip flops inside as i am such a rigid planner and this tosses a wrench in plans. I would have to try my picks next season instead in a new location. Also, it is weird to think you could do an international move, suddenly, without much warning.
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Fri Jun 24, 2022 11:35 pm

Also sad is that move would mean no more MMMM. No postal system.
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Fri Aug 26, 2022 12:42 am

So, i managed to get:

Wisconsin 55
Mrs Schlaubaugh’s Famous Strawberry
Amish Yellowish Orange Oxheart
Homer German White Stripe
Lavender Lake
Blood moon
Wild Thyme Purple
Reinhard Kraft’s Green when Ripe Heart

Total failures:
Rheinhard Kraft's Chocolate heart
Frog princess
Blue ridge mnt
Fatima

Failures were just due to pest issues. Someone dumped my starting jugs and the babies died. Setting out the last starts this weekend.
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Fri Aug 26, 2022 6:27 am

Julianna, I'm glad you got something at all!
The only good thing about a bad season, is knowing that there will, for sure! be better ones.
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Fri Aug 26, 2022 1:51 pm

Bower wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 6:27 am Julianna, I'm glad you got something at all!
The only good thing about a bad season, is knowing that there will, for sure! be better ones.
Well now to see if they can grow enough to fruit! Lol
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Fri Aug 26, 2022 10:22 pm

With global warming nowadays you should be able to grow them as a fall crop instead of a late summer one. You won't get as many but they'll be a heck lot tastier than supermarket tomatoes.
Good luck Julianna!
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Sat Aug 27, 2022 10:54 am

peebee wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 10:22 pm With global warming nowadays you should be able to grow them as a fall crop instead of a late summer one. You won't get as many but they'll be a heck lot tastier than supermarket tomatoes.
Good luck Julianna!
The fall is our warm season and temps hit the low 70s quite a bit here and there or at least stay in the consistent upper 60s. So it should be decent if we can keep the pests away.
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Sun Sep 11, 2022 12:03 am

So, I finally managed to weed the bed, move some bins (dragging as they have soil in them and the plastic is brittle), and get the tomatoes planted. If anyone sees my zip ties, let me know. I remember i left them on the fence and thought that was a bad spot, so i moved them to a safer place :roll:

Our yard now has 4 ground squirrels and a billion gophers. I am hoping that the plants being in bins makes them.a bit more difficult for the ground squirrels.

I had three plants each of Homer German and lavender/Lilac Lake. I put them all together in one bin each. It is late in the season and i ran out of time to move more bins. That is the only spot in the yard with sun year-round.

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Sun Sep 11, 2022 12:04 am

Yes they are too close together and yes i need to mow. :)
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Sun Sep 11, 2022 10:37 am

@Julianna you don't want to see my garden! I have to get out there and pull or at least cut the pathway grasses and weed seed heads before they mature and drop all over the growing beds. I've been trampling them back down trying to keep them off the raised beds, but it's a losing battle, why are weeds so resiliant?????

I think your tubs plants will do just fine.

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Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:20 pm

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Things are picking up. And the swiss chard looks nice as well.
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Tue Oct 04, 2022 7:11 pm

That swiss chard looks really nice.
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Wed Oct 05, 2022 11:11 pm

Shule wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 7:11 pm That swiss chard looks really nice.
It is gorgeous! It is peppermint chard. I forget where i got it, but i know the seed is here and there. Flavor is sweet. The stripes cook out.
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Wed Oct 05, 2022 11:12 pm

ddsack wrote: Sun Sep 11, 2022 10:37 am @Julianna you don't want to see my garden! I have to get out there and pull or at least cut the pathway grasses and weed seed heads before they mature and drop all over the growing beds. I've been trampling them back down trying to keep them off the raised beds, but it's a losing battle, why are weeds so resiliant?????

I think your tubs plants will do just fine.
I am right there with you!
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Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:11 am

My tomatoes are still going. Several nights in the upper 30s and the rains. Some plants look quite terrible. Others are thriving. Wild Thyme Purple is not only big and bushy, but it is setting fruit like crazy. Homer German White Stripe is huge and blooming like crazy. But it refuses to set fruit. So odd.

I harvested my first real tomato today with the intention of letting it ripen inside. I actually had a volunteer tomato sprout in the patio that is a cherry. It ripened first but was the seed of that horrenous spitter from last year. So Wild Thyme Purple counts as my first real fruit.

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Random garden in the rain this morning.
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Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:37 am

This goes to show you that not all varieties like the same growing conditions. Just like people some like it cool and others like it hot.
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Fri Dec 09, 2022 3:10 pm

MissS wrote: Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:37 am This goes to show you that not all varieties like the same growing conditions. Just like people some like it cool and others like it hot.
Yes! And knowing how varied it is where we all live and that some people breed and look for characteristics, i thought it nice to share the good and bad of this late season!
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Fri Dec 16, 2022 9:40 am

Ok. So, i am saving seed (which is always exciting but also sad since i love the gel). But we will see how this tomato is.
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Not bad at all! Totally not mealy like a lot of tomatoes go in the cold. Flavor was mild and nothing like purple calabash, my standard of awful. I am sure with some heat it would be much more intense, but this is great. Plant still looks wonderful. My wispy ones are all dead now. So just two are going on. I picked the fruits off the dead blood moon in hopes of at least getting seed.
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Sun Jan 22, 2023 1:46 pm

Wildthyme Purple continues to bear. It is slowing a bit... It has also been in the 30s at night and 40s/50s during the day. HGWS still looks lush and totally tomatoless 😂. Lilac Lake gave me one. It was small but tasted good. Not mealy.

I have been choosing for next season.

I have been having weird thoughts like... I wonder if Purple Calabash is as awful here as it was in Arkansas? Or what about in Jordan? I am contemplating a trial. How crazy is that? My husband said something tasting like a charcoal briquette sounded yummy...he did hit a tree as a kid with his bike.
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