Leaping Dachshund Farms CFO

[cjp1953]

Originally Posted by Worth1

I miss Booger too along with everything else.

I have worked with other people that complained about them digging.
That is like complaining about a fish swimming.
Worth

They love to dig,it's in their nature to do this.But what a funny and protective little dog.I get to attached to them. My daughter bought a house last year and moved out taking her little mini black and tan with her.I sure do miss having her around.Every now and then all three are over at the same time and you should see them barking at the front door.They always line up small to tall.Love it!

[coronabarb]

We had a doxie growing up and sis had a mini as an adult. That lil mini ruled over a 90 lb dobie male. They are adorably cute but they gotta do what they gotta do and that's dig. Git them critters!

[barefootgardener]

I love your sign and Tim is absolutely adorable!

Ginny

[pixlpush]

Tim has the ground dwelling varmints under control and now has turned his attention towards the sky. GO AWAY CROWS!

[coronabarb]

I love Tim! He's so adorable!

[pixlpush]

Finally after nearly 5 years he's content to sleep on my flip flops and not eat them. Here's some photo's from this mornings garden walk about. super happy to find some bumble bees have discovered my tomatoes!

[coronabarb]

Beautiful! Love your photos.

[peebee]

Yaaaaay, Tim is back! What a handsome dog. He's the star of your garden for sure.

[pixlpush]

Tim and I celebrating our Blue Chocolate plant passing 7.5 feet tall. This one is very happy!

[cjp1953]

Great looking plants,and what can you say about your dog?They're the best breed IMOP.Love the three in my family.They make you laugh and are full of love when they want to show it!!!lol.

[peebee]

Great plant, when do you think you will be able to taste one and tell us how it is? Looks like it's in a fabric grow bag, what size are you using?
My tomatoes are peaking right about now, gotta start freezing some soon. Noticed that the spider mites are starting to come back, have started a half hearted spraying on a couple of plants. Do you ever get them? I never did till about 2 years ago.
Jazzy my long-haired choc dox sends her regards to Tim.

[jhp]

Everything looks fantastic! Tim has been hard at work and deserves a nap. I don't know how I missed your post from last week. Looks great. What varieties of tomatoes (besides blue choc) and other veggies are you growing?

Jen

[pixlpush]

Thanks for the kind words, and I'll pass your message to Tim. Here's some Answers to Questions:

@peebee

- Still waiting for the Blue Chocolate to ripen, I'm guessing a couple of weeks still on that one. I grew them the last 2 years though and they do very well for me and are delicious. Things have been slow to ripen for me only have had 5-6 Candy Sweet Icicles and a couple Sweet Carneros Pink so far. I think there all going to hit at once. I've got some huge Berkeley Tie Dyes that I can't wait to ripen.

- I am using fabric bags this year for the first time. They've been great and I'm totally going to use them again. I've got 6 15 gallon smart pot bags in 9 gallon Tubtrugs to hold water. They're all on dollys with casters so I can roll them around my patio.

- So far no spider mites that I'm aware of. A healthy batch of grey leaf mold that I'm trying to control. it's nasty hard to stop and once it gets going the whole plant can go really fast. I spray pretty regularly with a rotating schedule of neem oil, soap, BT and Serenade to try and keep all my insect and fungal issues under control.

@jhp
here's this years lineup:

18 tomato plants
Gold Medal - tomato mania
Luck Tiger - tomato mania
Brandy wine - nursery
Blue Chocolate - tomato mania
Paul Robeson - volunteer?
Indigo Apple - WBF seed
Cherokee Purple - nursery
Sweet Carneros Pink - tomato mania
Copper River - LDF seed
Berkeley Tie Dye - LDF seed
Candy Sweet Icicle - WBF seed
Berkeley Tie Dye - LDF seed
Berkeley Tie Dye - LDF seed
Blue Chocolate - WBF seed
Pink Berkeley Tie Dye - WBF seed
Indigo Apple - WBF seed
Copper River - LDF seed
Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red - LDF seed

other stuff:
Mexican Bell Pepper
Cucumber (can't remember the variety)
Mexican Zucchini
sugar snap peas
butter beans
Burpee salad bowl lettuce
Red Sails Lettuce
Quinault Strawberries
Chandler Strawberries
Portugese Kale
rosemary
sage
Dutch radishes
White Lisbon scallions
peppermint

Picture is my first ripe Sweet Candy Icicle's, they were awesome!

[jhp]

Originally Posted by pixlpush

Picture is my first ripe Sweet Candy Icicle's, they were awesome!

Sweet Candy Icicles look beautiful. I'm a sucker for striped/bicolor tomatoes. How would you describe the taste?

Jen

[pixlpush]

Originally Posted by jhp

Sweet Candy Icicles look beautiful. I'm a sucker for striped/bicolor tomatoes. How would you describe the taste?

Jen

They're definitely sweet with a touch of tartness. Really good with a sprinkle of salt. They're very nice. I thought I was going to loose the plant early on. It's very droopy looking even when it's healthy. Now it's covered with tomatoes, I glad it sprang back