My Zone4 OP's are showing color...whew

keithaxis · August 25, 2006

Wow, does it seem like a long time for the first ones to come when you only have later season varieties. Here are the few ripe when I got home today. In this first photo you should see a few you already know and the one on the left is a pink ping pong although it is first one and pretty small one. Put 30 varieties (50 plants) in the ground on Memorial day and now late August I am seeing colors, the next 5 weeks should be real neat...

These are grown in two settings. Most smaller fruited plants were put in half whiskey barrells (14 barrells) Shoot, now that I am looking I guess I still do not have a ripe mater in the raised beds. All types you see above were from barrells and my goodness are they a headache to maintain compared to the raised beds. I do see that the raised beds will have black from tula, caspian pink, black krim ready in the next week.

Amazing that the past 3 days we had clouds and highs of 65, but today we got back to the normal 80 and the coloring sure happened today compared to tuesday, wed and thursday...

August 25, 2006	#1
keithaxis Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Buckley, WA Posts: 54	My Zone4 OP's are showing color...whew Wow, does it seem like a long time for the first ones to come when you only have later season varieties. Here are the few ripe when I got home today. In this first photo you should see a few you already know and the one on the left is a pink ping pong although it is first one and pretty small one. Put 30 varieties (50 plants) in the ground on Memorial day and now late August I am seeing colors, the next 5 weeks should be real neat... These are grown in two settings. Most smaller fruited plants were put in half whiskey barrells (14 barrells) Shoot, now that I am looking I guess I still do not have a ripe mater in the raised beds. All types you see above were from barrells and my goodness are they a headache to maintain compared to the raised beds. I do see that the raised beds will have black from tula, caspian pink, black krim ready in the next week. Amazing that the past 3 days we had clouds and highs of 65, but today we got back to the normal 80 and the coloring sure happened today compared to tuesday, wed and thursday...