I grow 35 tomato plants, onions and jalapenos and got into canning. After many trials and tweaks I landed on something that I really like! The benchmark I wanted to recreate is the Herdes brand as that is one of my go-to store bought products.
Thought I'd share and let me know of any quesitons.
Noticed some odd looking leaf curl in my fall planting of Broccoli and Cauliflower. Did a test to see if I could find the culprit by putting some leaves in soapy water and found some green spidery things that fell out.
I’m using Safers Insecticide Soap. I gather I could make my own but chose not to fuss around with it.
Some Rosella Purple, Brandywine, Tigerella, Sart Roloise and Cherokee Chocolate. The bigger ones are tipping the scales at 1.6 pounds. When the rain stops I still have a couple pints of Cherry Tomatoes to pick too.
Been a pretty good year and hadn't recorded any vids yet. What's interesting is that many plants in my other garden bed are much more advanced - like tomatoes which I've been harvesting for a couple weeks already. Always some mysteries when gardening!! I do need to do some weeding before taking a vid of that one and showing it in public!!
Been a pretty good year and hadn't recorded any vids yet. What's interesting is that many plants in my other garden bed are much more advanced - like tomatoes which I've been harvesting for a couple weeks already. Always some mysteries when gardening!! I do need to do some weeding before taking a vid of that one and showing it in public!!
First year growing these varieties and quite impressed with the growth and production. Started seeds April 1 and transplanted 6 weeks later with no potting up & I'm about an hour north of Toronto around the Orangeville area.
I've harvested about a dozen Tigerella and six Sart Roloise - good taste for both and the Tigerella tastes like a typical tomato and I've yet to be blown away by them. The Sart Roloise doesn't have a typical tomato taste and I now know what they mean when they say a tomato has citrus notes. Early in the season and maybe flavours are still building. One thing for sure, they both score high on looks though!
And tastes like a mid season tomato!
Top dressed with compost to add some nutrients. Used the broadfork to loosen and aerate the soil.
Planted a couple Igor brussel sprouts, a few (i forget) cabbage, Imperial broccoli and Twister cauliflower.
Planted most seeds indoors on June 1 and some on the 15th to stagger the harvest.
Using on BTK this year to handle the worms - worked great on my spring planting.
But as a Canadian makes me feel sick too…..
This is Belstar Broccoli that I started indoors under grow lights on March 1 and transplanted outside on April 15. It survived some cold spells after transplanting and some going down to minus 5. It survived just fine! I'm a little bit north of Toronto around Orangeville.
I think I'm about a week away till harvest & I have 15 broccoli plants to go through. It also produces lots of side shoots so we will have tons to eat fresh and then tons for freezing.
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A Regional Distributor will no doubt take your marketing $$ to throw a beauty shot or 2 of your products on their intro page. But give your head a shake if you thought that was free or if they were doing it out of the kindness of their heart. Again.....the company is spending money without a proven business model on an unproven product.
Putting my tin foil hat on.......this fizzy drink biz is by design so some of the massive amounts of shares given to the original bond holders can get dumped by duping noobs into thinking this is the futes bro. I'm very sus of the number of 5 month old accounts commenting here on reddit saying exactly that.
The math says this is a dead end imo.
Once they start forming a head it goes quick. I'm thinking 10 days to go until I harvest this one. Not the best pics as the lighting and angle were different each time
This is after a few outside leaves being stripped away to make a Caesar Salad for 2. Renee's dressing of course.
Going in a homemade bolognese sauce tonight.
Craig is one of the leading authorities on tomatoes and has made many contributions to the tomato world as well.
Started with 8 tomatoes and over 20 more to go that I didn’t want to risk. I’ve got some Dollarama polly tunnels on the ready just in case.
Seeing som progress with my cold weather crops. Onions, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and some peas.
Not risking cucurbits, beans, sweet potatoes or peppers quite yet though. Prepped the beds and thinking maybe next weekend but more likely 2 or 3 weeks away.
First year was cardboard over lawn and about a 6" top dressing with a compost mix and a good broadfork over the area before planting. Great results year 1.
Last fall I covered the plot with leaves and some wheat straw plus manure. This spring about an inch of compost mix and a good broadfork before planting.
You can see the soil texture I now have compared to what I started with last spring. Maybe not the method for everybody but works great for me.
