Tomatoes are out
Category: Other
Plant and transplant
Moved some tomato starts over into 2” pots, and ordered some more pots that size so I can do the rest and the peppers.
Planted squash seeds inside, and okra, and eggplant, replanted the peppers that had not come up, and a sweet million tomato.
I put some new pea seeds in that bed, but I have a feeling they are just being eaten up by something (vole? Mole?) from underneath, so I also planted a few in a pot up by the house.
Jelly
Grape Jelly Day. We barely made a dent in the grape supply to get a full pot, so we’ll probably have at least another batch in the next few days.
*EDIT- I went out and harvested more than another full batch.
We used the usual ball recipe but a low sugar pectin
Raspberries peas and onions
Pulled the remaining onions today. The wallawallas were definitely the winner in size, even though many bolted. Also got a handful of raspberries and a few peas.
This week
Tiny squash starting. Good pea production. Green tomatoes. 3 ripe strawberries (in pot). Finally warm enough for the irrigation.
A little cleanup
We pulled out the tomato and some tomato plants to get ready for garlic planting.
Today’s harvest
Ground cover and harvest
I bought a few ground covers to try out on the slope- mostly thymes.
I also seeded a bunch of clover and fescue in the bare spots.
Slowing harvest
Tomatoes aren’t slowing down
But everything else is
but do have some blossom and rot on the tomatoes at the base of the rocks. And the plum tomatoes look mineral starved despite fertilizing.
Here are some shots
And my pretty new dahlia that I got surprise gifted while picking up a spider plant on but nothing
