Barry Natchitoches
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I am down here in Zone 7, so we are blessed with enough time to grow a third crop before winter sets in.
So yesterday afternoon I planted romaine lettuce, cabbage, and broccoli.
I can hardly believe it — I still have about half of my tomato garden producing.
That has never happened before. As an organic gardener, there is no way I would ever use a fungicide on my garden. Which — here in the mid-south humidity - means that I have to pull my tomato plants early. At the first sign of blight (fungal infection).
but this year, Pard Seed listed two varieties of newly developed tomatoes as being blight resistant.
I didn’t really think they would be - seed companies have promised that before, but their plants couldn’t measure up to the mid-south humidity.
But the plants I grew from one of their tomato varieties really did live up to their promise, and I am still harvesting tomato from those plants!
I am impressed!
Wish I could say the same about the lima beans. They grew lots and lots and lots of pretty, healthy green vines, but not one single bean pod!
Well, anyway, I still have some bell peppers and tomatoes growing, but it is now time to plant my third garden of the year.
So yesterday afternoon I planted romaine lettuce, cabbage, and broccoli.
I can hardly believe it — I still have about half of my tomato garden producing.
That has never happened before. As an organic gardener, there is no way I would ever use a fungicide on my garden. Which — here in the mid-south humidity - means that I have to pull my tomato plants early. At the first sign of blight (fungal infection).
but this year, Pard Seed listed two varieties of newly developed tomatoes as being blight resistant.
I didn’t really think they would be - seed companies have promised that before, but their plants couldn’t measure up to the mid-south humidity.
But the plants I grew from one of their tomato varieties really did live up to their promise, and I am still harvesting tomato from those plants!
I am impressed!
Wish I could say the same about the lima beans. They grew lots and lots and lots of pretty, healthy green vines, but not one single bean pod!
Well, anyway, I still have some bell peppers and tomatoes growing, but it is now time to plant my third garden of the year.