This morning’s harvest.
And 12 jars of pasta sauce canned yesterday
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I live vicariously through your harvest, as well as the others posting here.
My tomatoes all have some sort of blight, and even though they still manage to set some fruit, the chipmunks usually get anything that starts to turn pink first. I can sometimes get a handful of cherry tomatoes, but I’m pretty much keeping the sad plants going for the benefit of the nuisance wildlife now.
The peppers are loving the heat, enough so that I’m giving them away. I have frozen a bunch for making hot sauce once the weather cools down enough to open windows for ventilation.
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good plan. i recommend a box fan to blow out a window close to your workspace. gloves are your friends when working with peppers!
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My 60s one-story has a whole house fan that sucks everything out through the attic. Open the windows, turn it on, and whoosh! It’s noisy, but I love it.
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Brought mine in today. About 2 bushels, into wine and juice already. All of my stuff seems to be on an every other year pattern, and i am too lazy to bother thinning the fruit to break that, so this was an off year for the grapes.
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(Quickly googles “bushel”)
I think i got about the same. I was able to press about six gallons of juice. Actually I should see how it tastes as fermentation has just about ended
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So an update on my kiddy pool gardening method.
I’d say it’s been a bit of a failure. I probably didn’t pick the best location for sunlight. The plants are probably limited because I chose the spot I did for reasons other than their needs.
I harvested one - the unbeknownst autoflower - but the bud quality was pretty marginal, so it will end up as butter.
The plants also all suffered malnutrition until I figured out the proper fertility method… which has ended up being a feeding of fish emulsion and cal-mag fed directly in each pot once a week. The other days, I just top off the water level in the pool. I think if I had done that from the start, the plants would be much healthier now.
But truth be told, I wish I had just planted them in soil somewhere instead of overcomplicating everything with this cockamamie method.
But the next generation of seedlings is already in the works, so onward and upward.
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Sounds about right. I have 4 gallons of juice just out of the canner and 2 gallons (about) of pyment just started.
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Today I heard of pyment for the first time 
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Not to get all NSFW, but the Lubber Crickets we’re having quite the night around our neighborhood. Talk about a good walk spoiled.
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For my surprise I found some tiny tomatoes hanging from my plant. I am so happy.
Honestly I didn’t expect it to work. I started with a very small pot. I saw that it wasn’t working and I switched to a bigger one. I put it on the windowsill and have been watering it every day
The first time I just threw in the seeds taken straight from the tomato with some pulp and all that stuff. Unfortunately, it ended up attracting small flies and then fungus appeared. This time I washed the seeds well and let them dry a little.
But , again, I just threw a lot of seeds into the vase. Most of them sprouted and I was left with a thick bush. I noticed that the plants didn’t grow, as they had no space because they were more cluttered than Tokyo subway passengers at rush hour.
When I transplanted them to larger pots, they grew. I mean, the ones that were planted in the biggest vase thrived and now gave me some beautiful fruits. I think there is still time to save a few more tomato seedlings with the one more transfer operation.
I’ve seen here that you use very small pots to make the seedlings and then transplant them to larger pots or the definitive location. I think this is the best way.
I think I’ll try planting bell peppers next time.
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Something has started eating our green tomatoes. Fortunately the rabbit/raccoon/rat/bird has not recognized tomatillos as food …. Yet.
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mmmm…
salsa verde, salsa verde! taco tuesday, oye, oye!
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So we’ve finally had a few days of rain.
Let’s get the hoe out for an hour, do a bit of weeding to finish off as I’m getting behind.
After an hour of this I’m ready for a sit-down and perhaps a cheeky beer in the shed.
Oh…
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We had blight here, middle England, for the first time last year.
It usually does not come this far East.
Wales is renowned for it and the only tomatoes you get that far West are grown under cover.
It comes down in the rain, apparently, so if you suspect you might get it, grow under cover, like in a greenhouse or conservatory if you’re lucky enough to own one.
Terry Walton taught me this, bless him!
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Yeah, it’s terrible here, do you know if you can water with the rainwater or is that out too?
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That is a good question.
I would have to say no, as the blight would presumably still be in it.
You can probably use that water on certain other crops (though you’d have to look that up).
