2021 veggie/food growing thread
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no, but we do have some fresh.Yeah? But is the *mozzarella* homemade?
The tomatoes/plants are definitely ramping down here.
Heirlooms got kind of screwed by a huge dumping of rain earlier this week. Other plants still have a bunch hanging fruit to ripen and even still some flowers here and there.
Cherry tomato plant is still going strong. It's been hard to keep up with that thing and make sure it doesn't touch the ground.
Piri piri peppers are all ripening. Still probably a hundred peppers to go. Crazy little things.
I think I'll opt out of growing bell peppers next year. Not much fruit from them and the bugs and squirrels love them. Have had to toss 70% of them so far. Oh well.
Today's picking...
Didn't pick this, but sooooooon
Heirlooms got kind of screwed by a huge dumping of rain earlier this week. Other plants still have a bunch hanging fruit to ripen and even still some flowers here and there.
Cherry tomato plant is still going strong. It's been hard to keep up with that thing and make sure it doesn't touch the ground.
Piri piri peppers are all ripening. Still probably a hundred peppers to go. Crazy little things.
I think I'll opt out of growing bell peppers next year. Not much fruit from them and the bugs and squirrels love them. Have had to toss 70% of them so far. Oh well.
Today's picking...
Didn't pick this, but sooooooon
I whacked the ever-living shit out of my tomato plants and turned off the water. I think I have maybe another week before it's gonna be game over, man.
Just about to consume the *last* of the 'maters from the garden... 'twas a good year.
WANT
I think we have three left.
Was letting a whole bunch ripen in a big, but one went rotten and spoiled all of them.
And so it begins... again.
What u doin willis?
Moved my bunches of chives to their own pots over the weekend. Hopefully no god damn squirrels destroy them before the snow comes.
Green bunching onion are still standing strong, despite being frozen a bunch of times. Love those things.
A couple fresh pots of basil... gonna try to grow it year-round.
Indoors?
Yep - we have a sunroom on the S side of the house. Basil grown outdoors here ends up kinda stunted generally, due to the cool overnight temps even in midsummer. So my basil stays in the sunroom year 'round.
I do this. I have found it does especially well if you get those pots with a watering chamber at the bottom. Basil really like wet deep roots and dry surface. Also I micro-feed it. Last plant lasted about 3 years before it got too woody to be useful.
Stupid question, that was.
Your cats don't screw with it? For being a carnivore, our young cat loves to chow down on any plants we have in the house. Especially the succulents.
Nice. Yeah asking if you were growing it outside was a bit of a stupid question, my bad.
Your cats don't screw with it? For being a carnivore, our young cat loves to chow down on any plants we have in the house. Especially the succulents.
Goddam. That's some dedication. I can get about 6-7 months out of a "crop" of basil. Fortunately, it's *super* easy to start a new crop with the sunroom...
Nope - cat doesn't appear to be keen on the smell of the basil. He leaves it alone.
Once it is established, with the pot I have it only needs one water/feed a week. Mainly I just really like how it looks. It mostly gets used to make pesto.