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Welcome to my Parkville Garden (?)... I got tired of no-flavor tomatoes... Even from the Farmer's Market ...so why not grow some real ones? Bought me a pot... A trellis... Some topsoil and peat moss... Three 'Better Boy' tomato plants... and off to the races... |
| And did we get tomatoes? We DID get tomatoes... and did these taste good!... I gave some to the lady next door and two guys upstairs and to BJ, next building up the hill... And one to Boss Bob, Complex Owner and Manager... And they all said.. "the Best Tomatoes EVER!" |
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Then, after buying some nice white radishes at the Farmer's Market... Why can't I grow some... So a couple new planter boxes, more soil, some seed, and 5 weeks later... Here is all I got... But they were tasty and tender.. all four of them! Well, ya can't win them all.. someone said... |
| Now, with the radishes experiment completed... How about some Geraniums in those planters... Yeah that looks nice... |
| What next? How about a jalapeno pepper? Bought another pot and started one... A couple weeks and here comes the little peppers... |
| TRAGEDY STRIKES! What broke off my pepper plant? Right at ground level... and it was going so good! |
| But then, back into a little pot with no roots at all... But in a couple weeks, a little bud appears... And now more leaves and going great... Maybe some peppers after all? |
| And now a picture on August 25, the broken pepper looking great and producing a load of jalapenos |
| So next, went to replace the broken jalapeno... I bought a jalapeno.. and then saw a mexibell... Hadn't seen those for quite awhile so I bought another pot and a mexibell... But... that jalapeno was NOT a jalapeno, I picked out a Hungarian yellow wax by mistake... It's on the right here... Oh well, planted it anyway... |
| The little wax pepper plant hasn't grown much but produced 5 peppers so far... I picked and ate these two and one more is in the jalapeno jar in the fridge getting pickled... |
| And two more on now... They start out sticking straight up, then bend over as they grow... |
| This is August 10 and these two are getting bigger every day... but the plant doesn't seem to be... |
| And after quite awhile...then the mexibell sprouts a little fat pepper... |
| And, now that the tomatoes are taking a break, it seems the peppers are taking off... |
| And August 10, looking pretty good... |
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The pepper line up today, August 10... on a HOT and sunny day... Left to right... The broken jalapeno, the Hungarian wax, the new jalapeno and the mexibell... |
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Oh, did we forget the herbs? On one trip to get a pepper plant I saw some nice looking basil and rosemary...
And then later went back for some thyme... Here... Left to right... Thyme, rosemary and sweet basil... |
| The basil really took off... harvested and dried some 5 times now... The rosemary doing OK, some of that picked and dried... But the poor little thyme plant never went anywhere, finally gave up and died... |
| And then the replacement jalapeno... Now going great, I counted at least nine peppers on here and more coming... |
| August 25... Decided to pick the 12 largest jalapenos to let the rest get bigger... |
| And then pickle them and into the fridge to mellow... |
| Now going back in time, when was it? I bought a yucca transplant at the Price Chopper... Well, it spent two winters inside so has to be going on three years now... This pic was back when? |
| And today, August 11 and I'm wondering if I can get it back inside this winter... If not.. what do I do with it...yuccas do NOT like cold... |
| Another earlier experiment... Cut the top off a fresh pineapple and planted it... This is the latest of three... |
| This is the first one I tried after about a year... |
| And today, three in a row, my pineapple plantation... No fruit but it was fun.. |
| Now, almost ready to plant... First with radishes in September and then tomatoes and peppers next spring... Need to add another sack of potting soil.. and maybe some fencing as something has been digging in it already... Probably that fat raccoon that was digging in my pepper pots... |
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