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Sunday, August 26, 2007
Weekend Update 2007-08-26
They're finally starting to ripen, upside-down and all! Looking
delicious, and watered regularly. There area about 36 ripening fruits,
total. Much less than even the smallest Matt's Wild Cherry plants.
On the left, there's one Matt's Wild Cherry in a Folger's container, which
has about 56 fruits total. The 3 gallon container has approximately 225,
and more flowers blooming. My intentions as of this date is to have two
containerized Matt's Wild Cherry plants next year, in 5 to 10 gallon
containers, and also thinking of using them as Japanese Tomato Ring
toppers.
The 19" Japanese Tomato Ring continues to be the leader in production, with
it's rogue squash topping it off. The seeds have either come from last
years cast-offs with their "promiscuos habits" as Emma says from the
Alternative Kitchen Garden Podcast, or they rode in with some of my
"imported manure". Either way, they're not causing any harm at the
moment to the tomatoes. If they do, they'll be dispatched as the one in
the asparagus patch was.
The tally so far is:
19" JTR = 6.75 lbs
29" JTR = 4.56 lbs
Containers = 2.21 lbs
Garden = 1.84 lbs
Total = 15.36 lbs of tomatoes,
so far from the whole garden.
Ok, so it's not as amazing as my "Ernest" expression might lead you to believe, but it's still pretty good, and the tomatoes have been delicious.
I'm beginning to plan and get seeds together for next year, as well as my fall garden and my indoor experiments so I can wile away the winter with some green after the Christmas tree has been put out for the blueberries.
Edited on: Sunday, August 26, 2007 5:13 PM
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