sallyg said:Wow ariya. Are you relieved when its it's over.. or bored

I am sad when tomato season is over. I want it to continue.

So nice to eat all the fresh tomatoes. So nice to cook fresh sauce. So good both ways.

they look delicious!

I love pretty tomatoes

and those ones are very pretty! Quite diverse in appearance! What kinds do you have there?

Mid top Pink Boar from Brad Gates. Corner left and right Russian Queen Heirloom, Bottom ones Chef's Choice Red Slicers.

nice!

I grow Basil to go with my tomatoes.

I've had a great year with basil.

Hope springs eternal and so I planted some seedlings of Jericho romaine and Buttercrunch lettuces out in the garden today. I have ONE surviving radicchio seedling out there.. may drop a couple more seeds.
Still to go, various brassicas and the like cool crops.

Had an experimental very late 2 squash plants, one already gone so ...

My peppers. eggplants and tomatoes are still producing fruit even though it is really, really late in the season.

From 4 tomato plants, I got a grand total of ZERO tomatoes. Oh,the plants produce ok. But, the critters got the fruit before I did. I think I'll stick to getting mine at the grocery store. Sure, they'r enot as tasty as home grown, but I least I'll get to taste them!

Sometimes you have to just suck it up and go to the produce stand. I can barely ever get a zucchini.

Sad day without home grown tomatoes.




This is probably the last of mine.

Last of the Southern Pink Eggplants for this season.

So pretty, hard not to want to grow them.
I just baked some Japanese Millionaire, tasty and thin skinned, will grow again.

I like having the cherry tomatoes and berries available for the critters--though I do try to gather some handfuls for myself as well. We have a shrub here called Snowberry--the birds gobble the fruit down.

found this place when I looked for seed potatoes
https://www.americanseedco.com...
But jee whiz. a pack of 10 grape tomato seeds for 6.55 AND there is shipping charged? I think they want to sell to farms, not home gardens.
And the minimum seed potatoes is five pounds. I'm not in that big.
I just wonder if my local source will have good looking potatoes this year. Their garlic was in terrible shape.

I don't have room to grow potatoes.

somehow I ended up with decorative gourd seeds one year and went ahead and planted them, not sure if they would even grow. sure enough! Very long vines and *huge* in my modest backyard. They were still sprouting randomly when I moved out... potatoes would at least have been edible!

Haha Catmint. I've grown some birdhouse gourds, they can make huge vines.

I have sprouts of lettuce, basil, and kale under the lights