I’m thankful for my CSA share. Nothing from the garden yet except for a couple of cherry tomatoes and herbs, but from the CSA this week I got Swiss chard, kale, chives, green onions, fennel,two zucchini, carrots, and salad greens.
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My tomatoes have taken off too. I see some orange peeking out from under the leaves on the Cherry tomato plant but all the rest are green. I did containers and my tomatoes are spilling out so much that we had to put a stake in the ground and tie up a huge part of the Roma plum plant. I can’t wait for red, juicy tomatoes.
Seems as no matter what you do, those tomatoes get out of control. Talk about madness! I have big peppers hanging too but no sign of color change yet. I usually end up picking them green because it seems like it takes forever for them to turn. lol!
The CSA box looks great too!
Thanks so much for joining in on the garden fun! I hope to see you (and your garden) again!
Your garden looks beautiful! I don’t know exactly in what part of the country you do your gardening, but I can tell you that for peppers (and melons and eggplant, too) to ripen it needs to be at least 60 degrees at night, so if it’s colder than that, that is probably why they’re not ripe yet. You could cover them at night with plastic hoops and clear plastic or a floating row cover, or just wait a bit longer and see if they ripen on their own. It’ll just take longer if it’s not warm enough. I garden in SW Washington State, gardening zone 8, and it’s almost never warm enough here for me to grow peppers and eggplant uncovered, plus we have a somewhat short growing season, so I just cover them at night, and then open the covering in the morning, and I get quite a few peppers and eggplant this way.
It looks like your dogs enjoy your garden as well!
thanks! I’m in zone 5b (Michigan) and our nights are definitely hotter than 60. I know, it’s hard to believe, since people think of us as the frozen tundra. But our summers are hot and humid. I think I just need to be patient. And yes, the boys love the garden. They’ve eaten what was left of the peas and one the cucumbers start growing we’re going to have to put a second fence to keep them from eating those off the vine LOL.
I think for tomatoes to stay in their square, they have to be pruned and staked- one reason I don’t use sfg for toms- I don’t have the patience! 🙂 Your peppers look good, though- you’ll get ripe ones pretty soon.
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Ah, so your tomato plants also lost that memo that told them to stay within their squares! 🙂 I ended up caging my tomatoes in their squares, and they don’t seem to be very happy. I probably should have done it when they were still small, instead of trying to “squeeze” them inside the cage after they were already several feet high. Looks like you’ll be getting lots of tomatoes soon!
I’m happy with our CSA too – and hoping that my garden produces something one of these days. Your’s looks fantastic and just about ready to burst! Thanks for sharing!
Love the garden! Everything looks great!
Thanks for linking up!
~Liz
Thanks for sharing your photos:) Your cherry tomatoes are making me hungry.
The photo of your dogs reminds me of our old girl that used to go out into the apple orchard and get an apple off the ground to eat whenever the mood struck her. So great.
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I used to live in a house with a row of dewberries across the back fence. Every morning my dog and I would race out there and I would start at one end picking them and he started at the other end and we picked to the middle. His nose was better at sniffing out the ripe ones than my eye was, though, so he always got more than I did.