In ,
Dr. Richard E. Hawkins took a deep breath, sighed and spoke
thusly:
In article 1065144433.357510@yasure,
MarilynŠ wrote:
In ,
Dr. Richard E. Hawkins took a deep
breath, sighed and spoke
thusly:
did *anyplace* have a good year???
raising hand::: We had an excellent year here in the garden. I'm
in the Puget Sound
area of Washington state.
*Washington* had more sun this summer than we had here???
I have *got* to get back home and away from this place of misery.
My tomatoes have produced like crazy. I
don't think they'll
all ripen before frost, so I'm going to pick them this weekend while
green and let them
ripen up in the house.
Lots of leaves, as it rained all summer, with little sun until late
august. Couple of tomato plants had two or three total . . .
Bummer. Last year I had the worst tomatoes ever. But this year I planted only Early
Girls, which grew nice and plump. See, the weather was a total reverse of normal years.
I can remember one year where I was replanting everything in July with bedding plants
because the plants that had grown from seeds loving planted in April had rotten due to
rain, rain, rain all June.
Peppers did good, so did the green beans. We
had an unusually
hot, dry summer. Not like last summer when the tomatoes were
disappointing.
I actually had jalapeno plants without a single pepper. One chile
plant went nuts, and one jalapeno had a bunch, though all small. And
I think
a total of three habanero between two bushes.
hawk
I feel for you. I did have one pepper or two pepper plants that didn't produce well this
year. I think the tomato plants may have overshadowed them and cut off the sun. The
garden got a little bit wild.
On top for preserving, though, I just canned 7 quarts of tomatoes today and picked a bunch
more to finish ripening on the kitchen counter.
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Marilyn
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I want a name when I lose"