Fruits and veggies?

[DirtyCoconuts]

Yes!!! Love some radishes

My favorite way to eat them is raw, sliced thin, coarse pink salt and a whisky!

[kvet]

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

My favorite way to eat them is raw, sliced thin, coarse pink salt and a whisky!

Sliced thick on rye bread slathered with duck fat...

Ray: do you know which tomato varieties you got? I'm trying tomatoes this year for the first time as well, I have Black Krim vines and bushy Tazmanian Chocolate. Also trying Habanada peppers. I started from seed a bit late for my area, so it'll be at least another couple months before I see any fruit.

[WaterWitchin]

Originally Posted by kvet

Sliced thick on rye bread slathered with duck fat...

Ray: do you know which tomato varieties you got? I'm trying tomatoes this year for the first time as well, I have Black Krim vines and bushy Tazmanian Chocolate. Also trying Habanada peppers. I started from seed a bit late for my area, so it'll be at least another couple months before I see any fruit.

My top favorite is Purple Cherokee. By far. I like the Black Krim, but here the former seems to produce more. I have 36 ready to transplant... swing by and pick up a couple.

[Ray]

Originally Posted by kvet

Ray: do you know which tomato varieties you got?

The purchased plants are from Bonnie plants, commonly sold around here at Lowes and Home Depot; Husky Cherry Red and Better Bush. The gift plants include a Brandywine heirloom and two unknowns.

The peppers are small sweet peppers - I just took one out of the bag from the grocery store, cut it in half lengthwise, and planted it and the seeds about an inch deep. I have no idea if I'll get any fruit out of them, but they are growing.

[WaterWitchin]

Originally Posted by Ray

The purchased plants are from Bonnie plants, commonly sold around here at Lowes and Home Depot; Husky Cherry Red and Better Bush. The gift plants include a Brandywine heirloom and two unknowns.

The peppers are small sweet peppers - I just took one out of the bag from the grocery store, cut it in half lengthwise, and planted it and the seeds about an inch deep. I have no idea if I'll get any fruit out of them, but they are growing.

Brandywine is another great heirloom. Those small little peppers grow well that way. Done the same thing last two years. But do one of each color... The only problem is finding one with mature seeds inside. In early spring I start cutting them open before using no matter what to find 'em for planting. Slow germination, but pretty fast grow time once it stays over 70F. I do them in pots, because I run out of raised bed for garden every year.

[Ray]

Originally Posted by WaterWitchin

...I run out of raised bed for garden every year.

Yes. This was a trial at 8' x 2' and almost immediately I thought I needed a second one. And then I thought, "How about a grid of four?".

[WaterWitchin]

Originally Posted by Ray

Yes. This was a trial at 8' x 2' and almost immediately I thought I needed a second one. And then I thought, "How about a grid of four?".

Ahem... from experience, double that four and you "might" have enough. It's like water gardens, greenhouses, shelving... just do it instead of piece-mealing it. You know you're gonna do it.

[Ray]

Originally Posted by WaterWitchin

Ahem... from experience, double that four and you "might" have enough. It's like water gardens, greenhouses, shelving... just do it instead of piece-mealing it. You know you're gonna do it.

I know, I know.

Judging by the number of fruits already formed, I may have to do a lot of other stuff than tomatoes!

One of my local customers is a purveyor of propagated fig trees, and he gave me an heirloom plant (Dr. Clark) that I planted yesterday.