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Sunday, September 09, 2007

2007-09-08 Weekend Update

Tomato wit ha nose A little better picture of the tomato with the proboscis There's another one that's ripening with a slightly different profile that will be making it's appearance in a couple of weeks if all goes well, and it doesn't get eaten before the photo shoot.

Black Prince Tomatoes ripening to a Deep Copper color The "Black Prince" have started ripening a beautiful copper color, some with green shoulders, some without. From what I've been reading, they don't have any shelf life, going "from ripe to tripe" in a matter of a few days. Hoping to taste them on their better days.

The Bag-o-Potatoes have made a comeback after the bugs had their way with them, will be interesting to see if they produce potatoes. Two of the bags had tomatoes starting to grow in them, which I've moved to different pots for an extended season (I hope), just don't know what tomatoes they'll be. 

My daughters have been having fun with this plant, whatever it is. they have snapdragon-like orange flowers, and produce pods like the one you see sticking out to the right. If prodded, touched or sometimes even looked at funny, they burst open with a spring loaded bit inside, shooting their seeds quite far. The payload's usually 2-3 seeds, since the spring takes up a bit of room. They work well, though - since anywhere I've not mowed is covered with them.
In the video, you can see the one seed shooting diagonally up and to the right.

The 29" JTR is now coming into it's own, with the garden showing better gains as well:
19" JTR 10.44 lbs., Δ= 1.91,
29" JTR 11.41 lbs., Δ= 4.50,
Garden 6.21 lbs., Δ= 1.93,
Container 3.29 lbs., Δ= 1.67
Beyond that, work has taken center stage, and will continue to do so for a couple of weeks. Once things settle down again, I'll be back to finding neat garden hacks and interesting tidbits over my lunch hour.
Posted by Andrew at 9:46 AM
Edited on: Sunday, September 09, 2007 11:34 AM
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