Ok - first tomato, first blackberry and sticky pots

 

Ok - I had my first, maybe not quite ripe, cherry tomato - a Rosalita
(pink), a bit tart, but just a few more days and I'll have ripe ones for
sure. The rest of the cherry tomatoes are few weeks away I think.

While dumping the weeds in the compost, I found the first of the wild
blackberries. YUM - a really treat in yesterday's heat.

I'm still dividing, marking to remove and otherwise, moving plants around.
And my mulch - a trade of 4 yards for about 40 mature clumps of daylilies,
is slowing making my paths a treat again.

As too sticky pots, well, I always have to scope out what in the discount
racks at Lowes

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/18431/

Is doing wonderfully in a lightly shady spot and just lights it up.

I also got a white purple cone flower and will keep looking for more cheap
plants.

One thing I want to do is clear room in the long bed for one or two blue
leafed rose (ok - that is what I was told the name was when I was gifted
it). I gave on to my neighbor and it is doing wonderfully on the side of her
yard in the "hot bed" among the orange daylilies and red bee balm.

Cheryl
Hoping for more rain in Southern NH

 



Speaking of tomatoes, my understanding was that determinant tomatoes all
ripped at the same time, but I have a Glacier with ripe tomatoes and
just set, green fruit!? Is this another urban legend biting the dust, or
is this just something odd about Glacier?

Most of my tomatoes have at least green fruit, except for the 90 day
ones.

Just setting out my second wave of lettuce, and need to start a third,
along with cabbage, kale, and broccoli.


Lucky you, my tomatoes are closing together, and the path between the
peppers and potatoes are tight enough that is is go slow or break
branches, and I have to keep looking for the paving stones among the
mustard, buckwheat, and clover.

I have some Monarda didyma sitting in a large pots, who have been up and
doing nothing for a couple of months. I'll be moving it to a bed as soon
as I get the potatoes out of it (the bed).


Hoping for some 90?F days to goose the garden along.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/28/naomi_klein_the_real_crime_scene

 

On 7/12/10 1:44 PM, in article
wildbilly-967FA2.10445512072010@c-61-68-245-199.per.connect.net.au, "Billy"


Next year, I want to add lettuce to my flower beds  - edible foliage!


Well, I am moving lots of "good weeds" out of the paths and it to new homes.


I've found with my various Monarda that they will "sleep" for a year or two
and then be wonderful.

I've had plenty!

 



 Ever grow nasturtiums ?  Think flowers that are peppery.  I like red
for hummers .

--
Bill  S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
     What use one more wake up call?  
 

 

On 7/14/10 8:34 AM, in article
b2forewagner-0F29DA.08342814072010@news.supernews.com, "Bill who putters"


Those are tasty too, I put them in pots and window boxes.

Cheryl