the 1st annual alexander limato jr memorial vegetable contest

[Carol Dee]

I have a tomato on the tomato albeit still small. The pepper is my largest pepper plant with some budding flowers. Everything is slow from a cold wet spring. It is still pretty cool. I was just thinking about him and the contest as I checked out the plants yesterday. Two weeks ago I gave a daylily farm lecture at a nearby garden club. It went well. My final story was regarding the whole Martha Stewart/ Alex daylily story and what joy that brought me.

 

[ninnymary]

Geeze, maybe I should have joined in. My peppers are doing very well, so are my melons. My tomatoes have tons of flower but so far few are getting pollinated. This year I haven't seen any bees. Other than a couple of those jumbo black bumblebees.

Mary

 

[catjac1975]

Our garden is 100% planted now, we are just down to tucking in sunflower seeds here and there to fill in spaces. We have the Yankees and highlanders going out in the garden with the rest of the peppers and starting to take off. Also have the Escorial melons in the melon patch and starting to take off well. We have 2 Phoenix tomatoes planted in the garden and one planted in the greenhouse. Let’s see what the season brings.

Oh, yea. One of the Phoenix tomatoes is huge in my tunnel greenhouse where I will keep it until a freeze. I keep it near the big door wide open on both ends. Almost like growing outdoors.It will give me early and late tomatoes.

 

[AMKuska]

I think these are them...maybe...

 

[AMKuska]

My completed peppers.

 

[Carol Dee]

@AMKuska those look great. We had a pepper failure this year. The spring was too wet, then rabbits. So I lost all my pepper for the contest.

 

[catjac1975]

My completed peppers.

I need to check mine.

 

[Collector]

Our daughter came and robbed our garden about a month ago and picked the 2 nicest peppers I had growing for the contest. There are others growing but those two were early and fairly large. The Phoenix tomato’s are doing great also have a bunch of the melons on the vines, but none ripening yet. Also those hybrid peppers are like 7” long and lots of them. They are just starting to turn so haven’t tried any yet.

 

[catjac1975]

Our daughter came and robbed our garden about a month ago and picked the 2 nicest peppers I had growing for the contest. There are others growing but those two were early and fairly large. The Phoenix tomato’s are doing great also have a bunch of the melons on the vines, but none ripening yet. Also those hybrid peppers are like 7” long and lots of them. They are just starting to turn so haven’t tried any yet.

She could have at least taken a photo!

 

[Collector]

@catjac1975 She could have at least taken a photo!

She did not know at the time that they were Not supposed be picked for any reason. There are others out in the plants, just not as nice as those were.