A Seed Saver's Garden

[heirloomgal]

Audrey II is _the Little Shop of Horrors_ large venus flytrap that was eating people.

I vaguely recall a movie about a singing Venus fly trap with ominous intentions...

 

[heirloomgal]

Thought I'd post a picture of this beast 'cause I know it's everyone's favourite vegetable.

He will soon meet my potatoes.

 

[digitS']

Nah.

But, I had a nice serving of Siberian kale Wednesday.



Steve

 

[flowerbug]

I vaguely recall a movie about a singing Venus fly trap with ominous intentions...

"I'm so happy to meat you!" (not a quote from the movie but that's what i would say if i were a large vocal venus flytrap... ) p.s. i did not see the above post about kale meeting potatoes before writing that...

 

[heirloomgal]

Can't believe it, but the tomatoes are done! Completing that job has been hanging like a millstone around my neck for days! Feel SO satisfied to mark that task off the list. I did it all outdoors this time, and the wasps were hovering around me like a cloud. Unbelievable. I dispatched quite a few, but more showed up.

This variety was such a nice surprise. I haven't grown it in years, and don't recall anything in particular about it, but the taste was excellent and productivity was quite high. It definitely stood out this summer from the others. It handled extreme weather like a breeze. I picked it originally for the name; I had a cousin named Sputnik (for the Russian satellite I believe) and this seemed a match for him.

Here is my Jacob's Cattle Gold little mini miracle. Not bad for 6 runts in an abysmal summer.

Pepper harvest today. Next seed saving job + I think I want to make some soup stocks for the freezer with these. I've used lots of peppers chopped up in various dishes, and I've roasted and frozen them before, but I'm not torn up about that method of preservation. So, we'll see how good a stock I can make with them.

Found these growing on the grass; they were growing in with the soup peas but when I pulled those vines down these came down too.

The bean load on 'Audrey 3'

I've cut close to a dozen off already, but I'm waiting on these ones to get a bit more orange. If I see rain in the forecast I'll pull them out - lots of snails this season on the pumpkins. I really should have nipped the ends of the vines so they would make one pumpkin only, but they got all tangled and I couldn't see what for what. So, they are a bit smaller than I would have liked.

It is seldom I see a true yellow heritage pepper, or even tomato, most of them are more gold, but I found these a couple days ago. They must be a cross, as the pepper was supposed to be red.

The reality of tomatillos. They cover the ground, then small animals nibble them! The cages were lifesavers for such octopus plants, but getting the groundfalls is a bit tricky.

 

[baymule]

What a bounty! Beautiful tomatoes!

 

[digitS']

Sputnik?

Wouldn't want to call his workplace and ask for him if I spoke with a stutter.

digitS'
who grew tomatillos once and couldn't figure out what to do with them

 

[heirloomgal]

Sputnik?

Wouldn't want to call his workplace and ask for him if I spoke with a stutter.

digitS'
who grew tomatillos once and couldn't figure out what to do with them

I know. What a name, but he was called Sputty for short (thankfully). His mom was my grampa's sister, and all the kids in that large family were residential school survivors. Sadly, that experience left some of them a bit misguided in their ideological leanings as adults.

 

[heirloomgal]

Thought I'd post a little on the beans. This is one of the crosses from network bean 'Bamberger Blaue'. It looks like a full fledge pole to me. I'm very curious to see what might be in the pods!

The last gladiolus to flower.

Kind of silly to post it, but I get a kick out of these self seeded peas. There is no hope for him to make it, but it is a feat to sprout all on its own with no water from me.

A girl and her bunny tails!

'Black Cobra' peppers are producing more than I thought they might; I hope the seeds mature in time. Has been a good pepper year all round.

Just a bit of yellow starting on the trellis pole beans. I pulled much leaf matter off here today.

'Graines de Cafe' set pretty well this year. No mole damage to this one, amazingly.

'Black Turtle' bean plants & pods.

Last 'Kings Knight' plant yet to be pulled. This bush bean did very well compared to most. It obviously has excellent adaptation to just about everything. Nearly all the pods I've opened had complete, well formed beans inside.

 

[Phaedra]

Although it's too late for the self-seeded broad bean, it's shoots are also delicious in soup or stir-fry

Other beans look so delicious ~~