The EarthTainer "Farm" - Dec 17 - Goose Creek, MarNar, Early Girl, Mystery Red

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Late Fall continues to be pleasant with days in the upper 60s and nights staying above 40. Just picked a pair of Goose Creek off my 1 remaining plant:



Still nothing like the flavor to me. My Number 1 variety.

Early Girl is still doing fine:



The MarNar F2 plants that I put in about August 15 are now ripening up nicely:





These are more MarNar F2, and I just picked one and saved seed for next Spring:



So, over the past 9 months I have been able to grow out Soren's F1 seed, harvesting MarNar F2 seeds, and starting F2 plants in July; and now today fermenting F3 seeds.

I have a "Mystery Red" plant which grew under the tarp that I set the EarthTainers on. Rather than whacking it some time ago, I let it grow along side and up through one of the cages:



I have no idea of the variety, so it will be interesting to taste it. It seems pretty hardy to have survived all this time.

The trials of the Mammoth Snow Peas are doing well:



And the Avalanche (left) and Oregon Giant (right) seem hardy:



I would like to start seeing some flowers develop as I am really looking forward to stir-fry Snow Peas soon.

The Pepper plants are hanging in there:



....while the Celery continues its never-ending development:





The weather forecast for the next 10 days shows no sign of frost, so it looks like we may get lucky and have tomatoes on the New Year's Day table.

Raybo