Re: It's on the truck!

Mike wrote:

> Pat. I'm managing to keep busy. Working in the garden as well as
> learning C (mad rush this evening getting the peppers and tomatos
> covered -- gonna be close). We've actually got ripe tomatos. No peppers
> have turned but plemty of them and some of good size. Picked a
> bucketful, enough to reduce what's left to no more than 3 per plant . If
> we can just  get through tonight and then get a few warm days.......
> 
I wish my garden were like that.  The tomatoes are all still green
except for 2.
Tomatoes in the plot did lousy.  too much rain? Wrong Variety? too much
fertilizer over the years?
Tomatoes in several varieties sprouted from the compost pile did great. 
Still green though.

green beans going strong.  Lettuce coming along nicely from an August
planting.

There's even going to be a pumpkin, A first for this plot.

The one Zuchinni is prolific and the spagetti squash was a hit with Ann.

Watermelon is barely out of the ground.  Don't know why but the plant
never grew much.  It's an inch high and about three around. A squash
plant in the same location up against the fence also did not do well. 
Lots of grass less than 6 inches away. maybe that's the problem.  

I've got a tomatillo with lots of blossoms, but very few fruit.

The chili peppers didn't do much, but I got two nice small ones...
That's two, not two quarts.

Next year I get some manure for sure.

-Pat

veggie-list: Mike's in Western massachusetts, Pat's in Eastern Mass
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