October 20, 2017 | #3016 |
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Important info for tomorrow's swap
We have an indoor building with a good sized room and bathroom facilities to use if it rains, it's on the premises, South of the garden, it's the Westernmost building, it's door is on its South side. Its where we have our meetings. The swap will still be Sat. Oct 21st from 1-4 at Miramar Community Gardens, 3700 Largo Drive, Miramar.
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October 23, 2017 | #3017 |
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We have close to 3 Raised Beds full of snap beans. Pike and Boone varieties. Hope to start picking a few by the first of November. We have approximately 300 Castle Dome Broccoli plants to go in when the Snap Beans come out. Tomatoes plants are setting but we only have had a couple of nights as low as 70 degrees, so it hasn’t been great. But the overnight lows will probably drop any day now. Bush Early Girl F1 and BHN 589 F1 are setting the most tomatoes. Cosmonaut Vokov OP, Danny F5, Brandywine Cherry Dark OP, Tomande F1, Jetsetter F1 are also setting fairly well. Others not so well. I'm attempting to grow 4 different varieties of Rutabaga. Hoping to find 1 or 2 that I like. I'm so full of Okra and sure am looking forward to some fresh snap beans.
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October 24, 2017 | #3018 | |
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October 24, 2017 | #3019 | |
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My pineapples look great too, including your 3, many thanks. They just yesterday finally picked up our storm debris, because I found the guy in the one and only truck(1200 houses in our complex) and bribed him with cookies! |
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October 24, 2017 | #3020 |
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Kurt, have to see if they want to put on a tasting, I dont want to be the only one bringing tomatoes.
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October 24, 2017 | #3021 | |
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October 24, 2017 | #3022 | |
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Both SunChocolas did not make the humidity/heat adjustment and died. Both Esterina plants, the one Pink Bumble Bee plant had absolutely no problems with the climate. All have set fruit already. The few dwarfs that I brought to Tennessee all made it even the one that got beheaded on the drive home. The Chocolate Lightning (that was my best dwarf star producer ever) is big already and has set fruit, I have rooted some clipping from it already too. The only other plants I have are Big Beef (all good) and 21X-F3 (from Dan's Micro/Dwarf project - a red cherry dwarf....I'm on my 3rd generation with them). That's it for tomatoes, although I did start some seeds in early October to make up for SunChocolas and some that died during the hurricane. My beautiful lettuce that I brought back died. I started again now that it is cooler, I have started some brocolli too. I want to at least use all my earthboxes up. Some plants went to RootPouches b/c they were so tall when they were planted out that I buried the stem easier. So much less plants, so much more time. This time last year after Hurricane Mathew, we had a 7 month drought and rained only twice. This year is just the opposite, rains a lot; thinking this will help with tomato russet mites. ---- Larry - your bean plants look beautiful. |
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October 24, 2017 | #3023 |
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I have 6 varieties of lettuce to grow ftom starts, but not nearly enough pots for them.
Just saw Castle Dome Broccoli seeds are on sale at Park seeds. https://parkseed.com/castle-dome-hyb...p/52507-PK-P1/ |
October 26, 2017 | #3024 |
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Great price on Tomato Maker
I just saw this retail yesterday for 13.99 per bag, so at 7.95 it's pretty good. I ordered 4 bags, because for seedlings this stuff is Magical!
https://www.planetnatural.com/product/tomato-maker/ |
October 26, 2017 | #3025 | |
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Thanks for sharing. Parks has a fairly thorough explanation of Castle Dome Broccoli. I have noticed that when I cut Castle Dome and leave the stub, it will often produce more heads of Brocolli from the same plant. I knew this wasn't side shoots but I didn't know what to call it. Parks solved my dilema. They refer to this trait as "Cut and Come Again", which explains it succinctly. Larry |
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October 27, 2017 | #3026 |
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Hasn't the weather been gorgeous this entire week? Definitely the best of the year! I also say 'This is why we live in Florida'!
Tomatoes are doing well and setting fruit. |
October 27, 2017 | #3027 |
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Wish the weather was going to stay nice, but even more tropical stuff is about to affect us on Saturday, and it's our annual Miramar Community Garden plant sale this weekend.
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October 29, 2017 | #3028 | |
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October 30, 2017 | #3029 |
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Wish I'd of checked in on this thread, the event was presently 12 miles from us. Or in Miami drive time, about an hour. Rained 4 inches in Pembroke Pines on Saturday, that's a lot of rain to me, but locals seem to shrug it off as nothing much.
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October 30, 2017 | #3030 | |
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