Now that it's finally summer, our garden is getting a little sun. In comparison to Oh, and there are little tiny swellings where the tomato flowers were! MOH discovered that just now.
Date and time of photo: June 22, 2009, at 9:00 am.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Garden Status at Two Three Weeks
Now that it's finally summer, our garden is getting a little sun. In comparison to Oh, and there are little tiny swellings where the tomato flowers were! MOH discovered that just now.
Date and time of photo: June 22, 2009, at 9:00 am.
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It's great fun growing your own food. I was so excited when I had baby tomatoes appearing. I tried tomatilloes too, but I think I needed way more sunshine than we get in the UK.
I'm hoping this garden will get enough sun. The garden is elongated east-west, and some of the afternoon sun is blocked by the house next door. I'm not sure when the tomatoes go into shade in the afternoon; the kale doesn't seem to mind!
Nice work! I have lots of baby green tomatoes right now, I'm hoping they all get a chance to ripen!
Homegrown tomatoes always taste the best to me. For some reason they just seem juicier and crisper and something else. (A friend of mine says it's just that I'm closer to zapping the life force out of them.)
I live at 7800 feet. Though I have an upside down tomato plant that my munchkin and I got for the SO (we don't eat fresh tomatoes, in my family), I have no hopes of actually getting fruit. If I do, it will not be ripe. We sometimes like exercises in futility, at our house. The tomato plant is just for the fun of it, so munchkinator can see the plant grow and flower and maybe fruit.
Amanda, homegrown tomatoes do taste better - and it used to be that tomatoes in stores were almost the same as homegrown. Now they ship them green, I think, so they ripen in the store. Never get quite as tasty.
Coconino, maybe you'll get fruit big enough to have fried green tomatoes! The whole garden thing is quite an experiment for us, too. Perhaps especially the tomatoes.
I forgot to see when the garden goes into shade, darn it!
And wow! 7800 feet is really high - around here I don't know if one could plant much of anything yet. Maybe...
Yeah. I don't think about the elevation much (I'm at the pinyon/juniper-ponderosa ecotone) until I wheeze a little when working around the yard or house. I then remind myself about how high up I live. Thankfully, I've never had altitude problems (been to 16,000 feet).
Julia-if you can get tomatillos to grow they make a wonderful shark or swordfish grilling sauce or marinade when combined with a few habanero chiles and an onion or shallot. Yum. If you can get hominy or posole corn, they also make a wonderful green posole (combined with Hatch green chiles) .
Happy growing and eating!
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