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I can't tell if the I'm starved for garden fresh tomatoes or if it's just an extra great season for flavor, but the tomatoes this year - though not yet numerous - have been outstanding. Sweet Apperitif and Pinky cherries also now ripening and the taste is 10/10. Looks like Beta tomato will be the first variety to ripen all it's fruits this year. With Premus and Uralskiy Ranniy a close second. For a bad year, it's an accomplishment.
Most of the peas are still flowering but the Kentish Invicta peas I started in modules is starting to dry down. A few pods have actually dried down. This is cause for celebration to me, because I had about 10 seeds to start! So, next year I can plant a whole row! I love me some super rare peas.
I learned in this rare pea year that I really liked starting the peas in the module trays, it worked fabulous. Will do again. So easy and effortless to plant out and space correctly. I always over seed.
There are a lot of good performing tomatoes in the garden this year, but this one has really stood out - mostly because it oddly seems to have very little nutrition requirements. I planted 2 'Zhiraf' plants in 2 very different locations, and both have done admirably having never been fed and scarcely watered. It's a long keeper tomato and I wonder if somehow that's related. Extremely healthy plants. These 2 plants were my last 2 seeds.
The life cycle of the pea.
This is supposed to be Lollandske Rosiner pea, if I recall correctly. However, I have my doubts. It expresses a hyper tendril habit which I don't think was around at the time the LR's date to. Or maybe they were more sophisticated in pea genetics than I'm aware of. WIll need to do some research.
Sapporo Express. A Japanese variety I can't find much info about, but I enjoy both the flowers and the peas very much.
One of my favorite pea flowers of all time - Salmon Flowered Crown Pea. This is just the beginning, the whole tuft flowers at once.
I would be tempted to think of Corazon peppers as 'cherry bomb' type peppers, but the texture of the skin seems to suggest something different. They don't have that smooth shiny skin, it's more matte, slightly textured and colored differently. We'll see what they're like ripe.
Wow wow wow. The Aji Mochero's really will make peppers after all. Aji's are often slow so this is fantastic. If this year goes well I may never grow peppers in regular pots anymore, it'll be window boxes instead. They seem to me to be doing better in them and require much less soil. I've found in the past that peppers grown in smaller containers also tend to be more seedy. Win win.
The overwintered Habanada pepper plant - it's looking good. I think I'll get some seeds. And on the topic of 'nada', I tried my first little C flexusosum pepper tonight. It was very tiny, but I could see that, as the books say, it's more a fruit than a hot pepper. I found that to be true, kind of blueberry/cherry mouthfeel (even though of course peps are technically fruit). AND no heat. SO AWESOME!
Most of the peas are still flowering but the Kentish Invicta peas I started in modules is starting to dry down. A few pods have actually dried down. This is cause for celebration to me, because I had about 10 seeds to start! So, next year I can plant a whole row! I love me some super rare peas.
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There are a lot of good performing tomatoes in the garden this year, but this one has really stood out - mostly because it oddly seems to have very little nutrition requirements. I planted 2 'Zhiraf' plants in 2 very different locations, and both have done admirably having never been fed and scarcely watered. It's a long keeper tomato and I wonder if somehow that's related. Extremely healthy plants. These 2 plants were my last 2 seeds.
The life cycle of the pea.
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Sapporo Express. A Japanese variety I can't find much info about, but I enjoy both the flowers and the peas very much.
One of my favorite pea flowers of all time - Salmon Flowered Crown Pea. This is just the beginning, the whole tuft flowers at once.
I would be tempted to think of Corazon peppers as 'cherry bomb' type peppers, but the texture of the skin seems to suggest something different. They don't have that smooth shiny skin, it's more matte, slightly textured and colored differently. We'll see what they're like ripe.
Wow wow wow. The Aji Mochero's really will make peppers after all. Aji's are often slow so this is fantastic. If this year goes well I may never grow peppers in regular pots anymore, it'll be window boxes instead. They seem to me to be doing better in them and require much less soil. I've found in the past that peppers grown in smaller containers also tend to be more seedy. Win win.
The overwintered Habanada pepper plant - it's looking good. I think I'll get some seeds. And on the topic of 'nada', I tried my first little C flexusosum pepper tonight. It was very tiny, but I could see that, as the books say, it's more a fruit than a hot pepper. I found that to be true, kind of blueberry/cherry mouthfeel (even though of course peps are technically fruit). AND no heat. SO AWESOME!