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The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
PRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isTOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists.GARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
PRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isTOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists. OCTOBER | 2020 | GARDENBLOG2013 1 post published by brianbreczinski during October 2020. Singapore began to encourage the use of rooftops as market gardens to offset the effects of climate change and trade wars.PRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
NEW TOMATO VARIETY
When I requested more tomato seeds from Prof. Klee's research project, I got a new variety, known simply as 'W', in addition to 'garden gem' and 'garden treasure'. The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since thisEGGS ON MY EGGPLANT
This morning, we found an adult Colorado potato beetle on one of our eggplant. It was busy eating leaves. I captured and killed it. I've had lots of experience with these pests; see my posts What's Eating My Eggplant? and Beetle Battle. This afternoon, we checked the eggplant leaves and found several clusters of orange OCTOBER | 2019 | GARDENBLOG2013 5 posts published by brianbreczinski during October 2019. We had a frost warning for last night, so we needed to do a few things toprepare for it.
BLACKBERRIES ARE BLOOMING! The blackberry brambles have been in bloom for at least a few days now. The white flowers, on the right side of the trellis in the first photo, belong to the triple crown blackberries. The middle bloom has lost its petals and is beginning to produce fruit. The pink flowers,on the left side of
GARDEN GEM TOMATO
A friend just sent me a link to this article: Commercial tomato growers and sellers may not want it, but I do! I’ve asked my favorite seed dealer, Pinetree Garden Seeds, to carry Garden Gem tomato seeds. If I want to plant it, I bet others do too. THINNING CABBAGES AND WEEDING Thinning Cabbages and Weeding. Posted on Sunday 26 May 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I transplanted the pak choi and asian cabbages, all but one of the peat pots had two plants growing in them. They’ve grown too large to coexist, so today I removed the smaller cabbage of each pair. I’ve just started the thinning process in this photo. NASTURTIUM & SWEET WILLIAM FLOWERS Nasturtium & Sweet William Flowers. When I moved some flowers to my office last fall, I had a window planter full of flowering marigolds and a nasturtium. Since then, the marigolds all died and the nasturtium (s) (not sure how many plants are in there) flourished and bloomed. I grew nasturtium ‘peach melba’ in this planter a fewyears ago
WHAT’S EATING MY EGGPLANT? As I mentioned in my last post, insects have been eating my eggplant. They primarily eat the leaves, but they also like to chew on the fruit and ruined three. These insects have appeared in the past, but not every year. Since I only have two groups of eggplant, I removed theinsects by hand
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The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
PRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isTOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists.GARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
PRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isTOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists.PRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
OCTOBER | 2020 | GARDENBLOG2013 1 post published by brianbreczinski during October 2020. Singapore began to encourage the use of rooftops as market gardens to offset the effects of climate change and trade wars.NEW TOMATO VARIETY
When I requested more tomato seeds from Prof. Klee's research project, I got a new variety, known simply as 'W', in addition to 'garden gem' and 'garden treasure'. The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this OCTOBER | 2019 | GARDENBLOG2013 5 posts published by brianbreczinski during October 2019. We had a frost warning for last night, so we needed to do a few things toprepare for it.
BLACKBERRIES ARE BLOOMING! The blackberry brambles have been in bloom for at least a few days now. The white flowers, on the right side of the trellis in the first photo, belong to the triple crown blackberries. The middle bloom has lost its petals and is beginning to produce fruit. The pink flowers,on the left side of
GARDEN GEM TOMATO
A friend just sent me a link to this article: Commercial tomato growers and sellers may not want it, but I do! I’ve asked my favorite seed dealer, Pinetree Garden Seeds, to carry Garden Gem tomato seeds. If I want to plant it, I bet others do too. THINNING CABBAGES AND WEEDING Thinning Cabbages and Weeding. Posted on Sunday 26 May 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I transplanted the pak choi and asian cabbages, all but one of the peat pots had two plants growing in them. They’ve grown too large to coexist, so today I removed the smaller cabbage of each pair. I’ve just started the thinning process in this photo. SWEET WILLIAM BLOOMS They are the larger plants that were growing in the planter in the first photo in the post linked above. I don’t think these are the original plants that bloomed last spring, but “volunteer” plants that came from seed that those plants produced. More sweet William plants will bloom soon, including the only one that survived last winter outdoors in my large window planter. PLANTING PEAS & RADISHES Saturday, I finished digging garden bed number four with my garden fork. On Sunday, I raked it level, raked the sides up against the frame, and raked in four pounds (1.8 kg) of 5-10-10 fertilizer. I covered the bed with the same landscape fabric from last WHAT’S EATING MY EGGPLANT? As I mentioned in my last post, insects have been eating my eggplant. They primarily eat the leaves, but they also like to chew on the fruit and ruined three. These insects have appeared in the past, but not every year. Since I only have two groups of eggplant, I removed theinsects by hand
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The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. AUGUST | 2020 | GARDENBLOG2013 3 posts published by brianbreczinski during August 2020. When I requested more tomato seeds from Prof. Klee’s research project, I got a new variety, known simply as ‘W’, in addition to ‘garden gem’ and ‘garden treasure’. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Last June, I planted sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) 'extra dwarf mix' seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. Of course, none germinated in one end of the containerTOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effectivePRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I've never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists. Their guess was that it's caused by either an insect or a WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isGARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. AUGUST | 2020 | GARDENBLOG2013 3 posts published by brianbreczinski during August 2020. When I requested more tomato seeds from Prof. Klee’s research project, I got a new variety, known simply as ‘W’, in addition to ‘garden gem’ and ‘garden treasure’. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Last June, I planted sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) 'extra dwarf mix' seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. Of course, none germinated in one end of the containerTOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effectivePRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I've never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists. Their guess was that it's caused by either an insect or a WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault is OCTOBER | 2020 | GARDENBLOG2013 1 post published by brianbreczinski during October 2020. Singapore began to encourage the use of rooftops as market gardens to offset the effects of climate change and trade wars.NEW TOMATO VARIETY
When I requested more tomato seeds from Prof. Klee's research project, I got a new variety, known simply as 'W', in addition to 'garden gem' and 'garden treasure'. The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since thisPRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
EGGS ON MY EGGPLANT
This morning, we found an adult Colorado potato beetle on one of our eggplant. It was busy eating leaves. I captured and killed it. I've had lots of experience with these pests; see my posts What's Eating My Eggplant? and Beetle Battle. This afternoon, we checked the eggplant leaves and found several clusters of orange OCTOBER | 2019 | GARDENBLOG2013 5 posts published by brianbreczinski during October 2019. We had a frost warning for last night, so we needed to do a few things toprepare for it.
BLACKBERRIES ARE BLOOMING! The blackberry brambles have been in bloom for at least a few days now. The white flowers, on the right side of the trellis in the first photo, belong to the triple crown blackberries. The middle bloom has lost its petals and is beginning to produce fruit. The pink flowers,on the left side of
GARDEN GEM TOMATO
A friend just sent me a link to this article: Commercial tomato growers and sellers may not want it, but I do! I’ve asked my favorite seed dealer, Pinetree Garden Seeds, to carry Garden Gem NASTURTIUM & SWEET WILLIAM FLOWERS When I moved some flowers to my office last fall, I had a window planter full of flowering marigolds and a nasturtium. Since then, the marigolds all died and the nasturtium(s) (not sure how many plants are in there) flourished and bloomed. I grew nasturtium 'peach melba' in this planter a few years ago; they must have self-seeded THINNING CABBAGES AND WEEDING When I transplanted the pak choi and asian cabbages, all but one of the peat pots had two plants growing in them. They've grown too large to coexist, so today I removed the smaller cabbage of each pair. I've just started the thinning process in this photo. WHAT’S EATING MY EGGPLANT? As I mentioned in my last post, insects have been eating my eggplant. They primarily eat the leaves, but they also like to chew on the fruit and ruined three. These insects have appeared in the past, but not every year. Since I only have two groups of eggplant, I removed theinsects by hand
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The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
PRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isTOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists.GARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
PRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isTOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists.PRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
OCTOBER | 2020 | GARDENBLOG2013 1 post published by brianbreczinski during October 2020. Singapore began to encourage the use of rooftops as market gardens to offset the effects of climate change and trade wars.NEW TOMATO VARIETY
When I requested more tomato seeds from Prof. Klee's research project, I got a new variety, known simply as 'W', in addition to 'garden gem' and 'garden treasure'. The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this OCTOBER | 2019 | GARDENBLOG2013 5 posts published by brianbreczinski during October 2019. We had a frost warning for last night, so we needed to do a few things toprepare for it.
BLACKBERRIES ARE BLOOMING! The blackberry brambles have been in bloom for at least a few days now. The white flowers, on the right side of the trellis in the first photo, belong to the triple crown blackberries. The middle bloom has lost its petals and is beginning to produce fruit. The pink flowers,on the left side of
GARDEN GEM TOMATO
A friend just sent me a link to this article: Commercial tomato growers and sellers may not want it, but I do! I’ve asked my favorite seed dealer, Pinetree Garden Seeds, to carry Garden Gem tomato seeds. If I want to plant it, I bet others do too. THINNING CABBAGES AND WEEDING Thinning Cabbages and Weeding. Posted on Sunday 26 May 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I transplanted the pak choi and asian cabbages, all but one of the peat pots had two plants growing in them. They’ve grown too large to coexist, so today I removed the smaller cabbage of each pair. I’ve just started the thinning process in this photo. SWEET WILLIAM BLOOMS They are the larger plants that were growing in the planter in the first photo in the post linked above. I don’t think these are the original plants that bloomed last spring, but “volunteer” plants that came from seed that those plants produced. More sweet William plants will bloom soon, including the only one that survived last winter outdoors in my large window planter. PLANTING PEAS & RADISHES Saturday, I finished digging garden bed number four with my garden fork. On Sunday, I raked it level, raked the sides up against the frame, and raked in four pounds (1.8 kg) of 5-10-10 fertilizer. I covered the bed with the same landscape fabric from last WHAT’S EATING MY EGGPLANT? As I mentioned in my last post, insects have been eating my eggplant. They primarily eat the leaves, but they also like to chew on the fruit and ruined three. These insects have appeared in the past, but not every year. Since I only have two groups of eggplant, I removed theinsects by hand
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The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings MORE GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS More Garden Gem Tomato Seeds. The tomato seeds that I was given for donating to Prof. Klee’s research were nearly gone, so I decided to donate again on January 17th and see what I would get. Yesterday (February 3rd), I received a letter from the University of Florida with three seed packets. If you want to do the same, go to the KleeLab
WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
TOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault is TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists.GARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings MORE GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS More Garden Gem Tomato Seeds. The tomato seeds that I was given for donating to Prof. Klee’s research were nearly gone, so I decided to donate again on January 17th and see what I would get. Yesterday (February 3rd), I received a letter from the University of Florida with three seed packets. If you want to do the same, go to the KleeLab
WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
TOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault is TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists. AUGUST | 2020 | GARDENBLOG2013 Posted on Saturday 29 August 2020 by brianbreczinski. Zinnia ‘carousel mix’ has attracted a lot of pollinators this year, including bees, butterflies, and occasionally a hummingbird. Our milkweed finished flowering before the monarchs arrived, so although they laid eggs on the milkweed, they needed to refuel somewhere else..
NEW TOMATO VARIETY
When I requested more tomato seeds from Prof. Klee's research project, I got a new variety, known simply as 'W', in addition to 'garden gem' and 'garden treasure'. The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since thisEGGS ON MY EGGPLANT
This morning, we found an adult Colorado potato beetle on one of our eggplant. It was busy eating leaves. I captured and killed it. I've had lots of experience with these pests; see my posts What's Eating My Eggplant? and Beetle Battle. This afternoon, we checked the eggplant leaves and found several clusters of orange BEE IN THE MUSTARD FLOWERS Bee in the Mustard Flowers. Several of the plants in my cabbage and mustard greens bed survived the winter and continued growing this spring. We were able to harvest some kale and cabbage this spring ( we’ve harvested kale in the spring before ), but the mizuna and komatsuna quickly “bolted”, i.e. began to flower before we coulduse any.
PRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
OCTOBER | 2019 | GARDENBLOG2013 5 posts published by brianbreczinski during October 2019. We had a frost warning for last night, so we needed to do a few things toprepare for it.
GARDEN GEM TOMATO
A friend just sent me a link to this article: Commercial tomato growers and sellers may not want it, but I do! I’ve asked my favorite seed dealer, Pinetree Garden Seeds, to carry Garden Gem tomato seeds. If I want to plant it, I bet others do too. BLACKBERRIES ARE BLOOMING! The blackberry brambles have been in bloom for at least a few days now. The white flowers, on the right side of the trellis in the first photo, belong to the triple crown blackberries. The middle bloom has lost its petals and is beginning to produce fruit. The pink flowers,on the left side of
CABBAGE PATCH “WEEDS” & POLLINATORS Cabbage Patch “Weeds” & Pollinators. We have been harvesting and eating cabbage for over a month. We still have several cabbages growing in the first garden bed. The cauliflower plants haven’t started making heads yet, but the kale is growing well. We’ll eat kale in the fall; a frost is supposed to improve the flavor. RE-POTTING THE DWARF POMEGRANATES My three dwarf pomegranate trees have been growing in some small pots for a couple of years, and I felt they needed larger pots to flourish. Pomegranates do well in dry conditions, so I chose terra-cotta pots that should help prevent waterlogged soil. To fill in the extra space in the larger pots, I used potting soil thatGARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings MORE GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS More Garden Gem Tomato Seeds. The tomato seeds that I was given for donating to Prof. Klee’s research were nearly gone, so I decided to donate again on January 17th and see what I would get. Yesterday (February 3rd), I received a letter from the University of Florida with three seed packets. If you want to do the same, go to the KleeLab
WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
TOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault is TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists.GARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings MORE GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS More Garden Gem Tomato Seeds. The tomato seeds that I was given for donating to Prof. Klee’s research were nearly gone, so I decided to donate again on January 17th and see what I would get. Yesterday (February 3rd), I received a letter from the University of Florida with three seed packets. If you want to do the same, go to the KleeLab
WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
TOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault is TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists. AUGUST | 2020 | GARDENBLOG2013 Posted on Saturday 29 August 2020 by brianbreczinski. Zinnia ‘carousel mix’ has attracted a lot of pollinators this year, including bees, butterflies, and occasionally a hummingbird. Our milkweed finished flowering before the monarchs arrived, so although they laid eggs on the milkweed, they needed to refuel somewhere else..
EGGS ON MY EGGPLANT
This morning, we found an adult Colorado potato beetle on one of our eggplant. It was busy eating leaves. I captured and killed it. I've had lots of experience with these pests; see my posts What's Eating My Eggplant? and Beetle Battle. This afternoon, we checked the eggplant leaves and found several clusters of orangeNEW TOMATO VARIETY
When I requested more tomato seeds from Prof. Klee's research project, I got a new variety, known simply as 'W', in addition to 'garden gem' and 'garden treasure'. The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this BEE IN THE MUSTARD FLOWERS Bee in the Mustard Flowers. Several of the plants in my cabbage and mustard greens bed survived the winter and continued growing this spring. We were able to harvest some kale and cabbage this spring ( we’ve harvested kale in the spring before ), but the mizuna and komatsuna quickly “bolted”, i.e. began to flower before we coulduse any.
PRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
GARDEN GEM TOMATO
A friend just sent me a link to this article: Commercial tomato growers and sellers may not want it, but I do! I’ve asked my favorite seed dealer, Pinetree Garden Seeds, to carry Garden Gem tomato seeds. If I want to plant it, I bet others do too. CABBAGE PATCH “WEEDS” & POLLINATORS Cabbage Patch “Weeds” & Pollinators. We have been harvesting and eating cabbage for over a month. We still have several cabbages growing in the first garden bed. The cauliflower plants haven’t started making heads yet, but the kale is growing well. We’ll eat kale in the fall; a frost is supposed to improve the flavor. BLACKBERRIES ARE BLOOMING! The blackberry brambles have been in bloom for at least a few days now. The white flowers, on the right side of the trellis in the first photo, belong to the triple crown blackberries. The middle bloom has lost its petals and is beginning to produce fruit. The pink flowers,on the left side of
THINNING CABBAGES AND WEEDING Thinning Cabbages and Weeding. Posted on Sunday 26 May 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I transplanted the pak choi and asian cabbages, all but one of the peat pots had two plants growing in them. They’ve grown too large to coexist, so today I removed the smaller cabbage of each pair. I’ve just started the thinning process in this photo. RE-POTTING THE DWARF POMEGRANATES My three dwarf pomegranate trees have been growing in some small pots for a couple of years, and I felt they needed larger pots to flourish. Pomegranates do well in dry conditions, so I chose terra-cotta pots that should help prevent waterlogged soil. To fill in the extra space in the larger pots, I used potting soil thatGARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings MORE GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS More Garden Gem Tomato Seeds. The tomato seeds that I was given for donating to Prof. Klee’s research were nearly gone, so I decided to donate again on January 17th and see what I would get. Yesterday (February 3rd), I received a letter from the University of Florida with three seed packets. If you want to do the same, go to the KleeLab
WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
TOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault is TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists.GARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings MORE GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS More Garden Gem Tomato Seeds. The tomato seeds that I was given for donating to Prof. Klee’s research were nearly gone, so I decided to donate again on January 17th and see what I would get. Yesterday (February 3rd), I received a letter from the University of Florida with three seed packets. If you want to do the same, go to the KleeLab
WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
TOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault is TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists.EGGS ON MY EGGPLANT
This morning, we found an adult Colorado potato beetle on one of our eggplant. It was busy eating leaves. I captured and killed it. I've had lots of experience with these pests; see my posts What's Eating My Eggplant? and Beetle Battle. This afternoon, we checked the eggplant leaves and found several clusters of orange BEE IN THE MUSTARD FLOWERS Bee in the Mustard Flowers. Several of the plants in my cabbage and mustard greens bed survived the winter and continued growing this spring. We were able to harvest some kale and cabbage this spring ( we’ve harvested kale in the spring before ), but the mizuna and komatsuna quickly “bolted”, i.e. began to flower before we coulduse any.
PRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
GARDEN GEM TOMATO
A friend just sent me a link to this article: Commercial tomato growers and sellers may not want it, but I do! I’ve asked my favorite seed dealer, Pinetree Garden Seeds, to carry Garden Gem tomato seeds. If I want to plant it, I bet others do too. CABBAGE PATCH “WEEDS” & POLLINATORS Cabbage Patch “Weeds” & Pollinators. We have been harvesting and eating cabbage for over a month. We still have several cabbages growing in the first garden bed. The cauliflower plants haven’t started making heads yet, but the kale is growing well. We’ll eat kale in the fall; a frost is supposed to improve the flavor. NASTURTIUM & SWEET WILLIAM FLOWERS Nasturtium & Sweet William Flowers. When I moved some flowers to my office last fall, I had a window planter full of flowering marigolds and a nasturtium. Since then, the marigolds all died and the nasturtium (s) (not sure how many plants are in there) flourished and bloomed. I grew nasturtium ‘peach melba’ in this planter a fewyears ago
TRANSPLANTING OKRA
On Saturday (May 30th), I decided to transplant okra into garden bed number three a few hours after I finished transplanting the peppers, eggplant, and marigolds. In the past two years, I've planted okra seeds directly into the garden rather than starting them indoors, but this year I decided to use okra as a test THINNING CABBAGES AND WEEDING Thinning Cabbages and Weeding. Posted on Sunday 26 May 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I transplanted the pak choi and asian cabbages, all but one of the peat pots had two plants growing in them. They’ve grown too large to coexist, so today I removed the smaller cabbage of each pair. I’ve just started the thinning process in this photo. BLACKBERRIES ARE BLOOMING! The blackberry brambles have been in bloom for at least a few days now. The white flowers, on the right side of the trellis in the first photo, belong to the triple crown blackberries. The middle bloom has lost its petals and is beginning to produce fruit. The pink flowers,on the left side of
RE-POTTING THE DWARF POMEGRANATES My three dwarf pomegranate trees have been growing in some small pots for a couple of years, and I felt they needed larger pots to flourish. Pomegranates do well in dry conditions, so I chose terra-cotta pots that should help prevent waterlogged soil. To fill in the extra space in the larger pots, I used potting soil thatGARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
TOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isPRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists.GARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
TOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isPRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists. OCTOBER | 2020 | GARDENBLOG2013 1 post published by brianbreczinski during October 2020. Singapore began to encourage the use of rooftops as market gardens to offset the effects of climate change and trade wars.NEW TOMATO VARIETY
When I requested more tomato seeds from Prof. Klee's research project, I got a new variety, known simply as 'W', in addition to 'garden gem' and 'garden treasure'. The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since thisPRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
EGGS ON MY EGGPLANT
This morning, we found an adult Colorado potato beetle on one of our eggplant. It was busy eating leaves. I captured and killed it. I've had lots of experience with these pests; see my posts What's Eating My Eggplant? and Beetle Battle. This afternoon, we checked the eggplant leaves and found several clusters of orange BLACKBERRIES ARE BLOOMING! The blackberry brambles have been in bloom for at least a few days now. The white flowers, on the right side of the trellis in the first photo, belong to the triple crown blackberries. The middle bloom has lost its petals and is beginning to produce fruit. The pink flowers,on the left side of
GARDEN GEM TOMATO
A friend just sent me a link to this article: Commercial tomato growers and sellers may not want it, but I do! I’ve asked my favorite seed dealer, Pinetree Garden Seeds, to carry Garden Gem tomato seeds. If I want to plant it, I bet others do too. NASTURTIUM & SWEET WILLIAM FLOWERS Nasturtium & Sweet William Flowers. When I moved some flowers to my office last fall, I had a window planter full of flowering marigolds and a nasturtium. Since then, the marigolds all died and the nasturtium (s) (not sure how many plants are in there) flourished and bloomed. I grew nasturtium ‘peach melba’ in this planter a fewyears ago
SWEET WILLIAM BLOOMS They are the larger plants that were growing in the planter in the first photo in the post linked above. I don’t think these are the original plants that bloomed last spring, but “volunteer” plants that came from seed that those plants produced. More sweet William plants will bloom soon, including the only one that survived last winter outdoors in my large window planter. THINNING CABBAGES AND WEEDING Thinning Cabbages and Weeding. Posted on Sunday 26 May 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I transplanted the pak choi and asian cabbages, all but one of the peat pots had two plants growing in them. They’ve grown too large to coexist, so today I removed the smaller cabbage of each pair. I’ve just started the thinning process in this photo. WHAT’S EATING MY EGGPLANT? As I mentioned in my last post, insects have been eating my eggplant. They primarily eat the leaves, but they also like to chew on the fruit and ruined three. These insects have appeared in the past, but not every year. Since I only have two groups of eggplant, I removed theinsects by hand
GARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
TOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isPRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists.GARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
TOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isPRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists. OCTOBER | 2020 | GARDENBLOG2013 1 post published by brianbreczinski during October 2020. Singapore began to encourage the use of rooftops as market gardens to offset the effects of climate change and trade wars.NEW TOMATO VARIETY
When I requested more tomato seeds from Prof. Klee's research project, I got a new variety, known simply as 'W', in addition to 'garden gem' and 'garden treasure'. The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since thisPRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
EGGS ON MY EGGPLANT
This morning, we found an adult Colorado potato beetle on one of our eggplant. It was busy eating leaves. I captured and killed it. I've had lots of experience with these pests; see my posts What's Eating My Eggplant? and Beetle Battle. This afternoon, we checked the eggplant leaves and found several clusters of orange BLACKBERRIES ARE BLOOMING! The blackberry brambles have been in bloom for at least a few days now. The white flowers, on the right side of the trellis in the first photo, belong to the triple crown blackberries. The middle bloom has lost its petals and is beginning to produce fruit. The pink flowers,on the left side of
GARDEN GEM TOMATO
A friend just sent me a link to this article: Commercial tomato growers and sellers may not want it, but I do! I’ve asked my favorite seed dealer, Pinetree Garden Seeds, to carry Garden Gem tomato seeds. If I want to plant it, I bet others do too. NASTURTIUM & SWEET WILLIAM FLOWERS Nasturtium & Sweet William Flowers. When I moved some flowers to my office last fall, I had a window planter full of flowering marigolds and a nasturtium. Since then, the marigolds all died and the nasturtium (s) (not sure how many plants are in there) flourished and bloomed. I grew nasturtium ‘peach melba’ in this planter a fewyears ago
SWEET WILLIAM BLOOMS They are the larger plants that were growing in the planter in the first photo in the post linked above. I don’t think these are the original plants that bloomed last spring, but “volunteer” plants that came from seed that those plants produced. More sweet William plants will bloom soon, including the only one that survived last winter outdoors in my large window planter. THINNING CABBAGES AND WEEDING Thinning Cabbages and Weeding. Posted on Sunday 26 May 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I transplanted the pak choi and asian cabbages, all but one of the peat pots had two plants growing in them. They’ve grown too large to coexist, so today I removed the smaller cabbage of each pair. I’ve just started the thinning process in this photo. WHAT’S EATING MY EGGPLANT? As I mentioned in my last post, insects have been eating my eggplant. They primarily eat the leaves, but they also like to chew on the fruit and ruined three. These insects have appeared in the past, but not every year. Since I only have two groups of eggplant, I removed theinsects by hand
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The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
TOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isPRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists.GARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. SEED COATS, SEED LEAVES, TRUE LEAVES, & MUTANT KALE Seed Coats, Seed Leaves, True Leaves, & Mutant Kale. As I mentioned recently , the seed coat sometimes remains on a plant’s seed leaves or cotyledons, trapping them so that the young plant can’t grow properly. Soil or other material can similarly bind seedlings’ leaves. If the seed coat or other problem doesn’t drop off on itsown
TOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isPRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists. OCTOBER | 2020 | GARDENBLOG2013 1 post published by brianbreczinski during October 2020. Singapore began to encourage the use of rooftops as market gardens to offset the effects of climate change and trade wars.NEW TOMATO VARIETY
When I requested more tomato seeds from Prof. Klee's research project, I got a new variety, known simply as 'W', in addition to 'garden gem' and 'garden treasure'. The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since thisPRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
EGGS ON MY EGGPLANT
This morning, we found an adult Colorado potato beetle on one of our eggplant. It was busy eating leaves. I captured and killed it. I've had lots of experience with these pests; see my posts What's Eating My Eggplant? and Beetle Battle. This afternoon, we checked the eggplant leaves and found several clusters of orange BLACKBERRIES ARE BLOOMING! The blackberry brambles have been in bloom for at least a few days now. The white flowers, on the right side of the trellis in the first photo, belong to the triple crown blackberries. The middle bloom has lost its petals and is beginning to produce fruit. The pink flowers,on the left side of
GARDEN GEM TOMATO
A friend just sent me a link to this article: Commercial tomato growers and sellers may not want it, but I do! I’ve asked my favorite seed dealer, Pinetree Garden Seeds, to carry Garden Gem tomato seeds. If I want to plant it, I bet others do too. NASTURTIUM & SWEET WILLIAM FLOWERS Nasturtium & Sweet William Flowers. When I moved some flowers to my office last fall, I had a window planter full of flowering marigolds and a nasturtium. Since then, the marigolds all died and the nasturtium (s) (not sure how many plants are in there) flourished and bloomed. I grew nasturtium ‘peach melba’ in this planter a fewyears ago
SWEET WILLIAM BLOOMS They are the larger plants that were growing in the planter in the first photo in the post linked above. I don’t think these are the original plants that bloomed last spring, but “volunteer” plants that came from seed that those plants produced. More sweet William plants will bloom soon, including the only one that survived last winter outdoors in my large window planter. THINNING CABBAGES AND WEEDING Thinning Cabbages and Weeding. Posted on Sunday 26 May 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I transplanted the pak choi and asian cabbages, all but one of the peat pots had two plants growing in them. They’ve grown too large to coexist, so today I removed the smaller cabbage of each pair. I’ve just started the thinning process in this photo. WHAT’S EATING MY EGGPLANT? As I mentioned in my last post, insects have been eating my eggplant. They primarily eat the leaves, but they also like to chew on the fruit and ruined three. These insects have appeared in the past, but not every year. Since I only have two groups of eggplant, I removed theinsects by hand
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The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings MORE GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS More Garden Gem Tomato Seeds. The tomato seeds that I was given for donating to Prof. Klee’s research were nearly gone, so I decided to donate again on January 17th and see what I would get. Yesterday (February 3rd), I received a letter from the University of Florida with three seed packets. If you want to do the same, go to the KleeLab
WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoesTOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isPRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists.GARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings MORE GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS More Garden Gem Tomato Seeds. The tomato seeds that I was given for donating to Prof. Klee’s research were nearly gone, so I decided to donate again on January 17th and see what I would get. Yesterday (February 3rd), I received a letter from the University of Florida with three seed packets. If you want to do the same, go to the KleeLab
WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoesTOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Transplanting Sweet William. Posted on Thursday 05 December 2013 by brianbreczinski. Last June, I planted sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus) ‘extra dwarf mix’ seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault isPRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! I’ve got blisters on my cactus! Posted on Friday 01 November 2013 by brianbreczinski. When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I’ve never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists. AUGUST | 2020 | GARDENBLOG2013 Posted on Saturday 29 August 2020 by brianbreczinski. Zinnia ‘carousel mix’ has attracted a lot of pollinators this year, including bees, butterflies, and occasionally a hummingbird. Our milkweed finished flowering before the monarchs arrived, so although they laid eggs on the milkweed, they needed to refuel somewhere else..
PRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
NEW TOMATO VARIETY
When I requested more tomato seeds from Prof. Klee's research project, I got a new variety, known simply as 'W', in addition to 'garden gem' and 'garden treasure'. The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since thisEGGS ON MY EGGPLANT
This morning, we found an adult Colorado potato beetle on one of our eggplant. It was busy eating leaves. I captured and killed it. I've had lots of experience with these pests; see my posts What's Eating My Eggplant? and Beetle Battle. This afternoon, we checked the eggplant leaves and found several clusters of orange BEE IN THE MUSTARD FLOWERS Bee in the Mustard Flowers. Several of the plants in my cabbage and mustard greens bed survived the winter and continued growing this spring. We were able to harvest some kale and cabbage this spring ( we’ve harvested kale in the spring before ), but the mizuna and komatsuna quickly “bolted”, i.e. began to flower before we coulduse any.
MORE SPRING FLOWERS
This is a collection of many photos of spring flowers that I've taken over the past month. From May 5th I have two of these red-flowering azalea bushes. This one was on the west side of the house, where it wasn't doing well. I moved it to a shady spot on the north side of BLACKBERRIES ARE BLOOMING! The blackberry brambles have been in bloom for at least a few days now. The white flowers, on the right side of the trellis in the first photo, belong to the triple crown blackberries. The middle bloom has lost its petals and is beginning to produce fruit. The pink flowers,on the left side of
NASTURTIUM & SWEET WILLIAM FLOWERS Nasturtium & Sweet William Flowers. When I moved some flowers to my office last fall, I had a window planter full of flowering marigolds and a nasturtium. Since then, the marigolds all died and the nasturtium (s) (not sure how many plants are in there) flourished and bloomed. I grew nasturtium ‘peach melba’ in this planter a fewyears ago
SWEET WILLIAM BLOOMS They are the larger plants that were growing in the planter in the first photo in the post linked above. I don’t think these are the original plants that bloomed last spring, but “volunteer” plants that came from seed that those plants produced. More sweet William plants will bloom soon, including the only one that survived last winter outdoors in my large window planter. RE-POTTING THE DWARF POMEGRANATES My three dwarf pomegranate trees have been growing in some small pots for a couple of years, and I felt they needed larger pots to flourish. Pomegranates do well in dry conditions, so I chose terra-cotta pots that should help prevent waterlogged soil. To fill in the extra space in the larger pots, I used potting soil thatGARDENBLOG2013
The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings MORE GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS The tomato seeds that I was given for donating to Prof. Klee's research were nearly gone, so I decided to donate again on January 17th and see what I would get. Yesterday (February 3rd), I received a letter from the University of Florida with three seed packets. If you want to do the same, go WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Last June, I planted sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) 'extra dwarf mix' seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. Of course, none germinated in one end of the containerTOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault is I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I've never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists. Their guess was that it's caused by either an insect or aPRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
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The plants have been producing medium-sized, round red fruit since mid-summer. This photo is from August 5th. Production has slowed down lately, which is expected since this is a determinate tomato variety. HOW TO GET GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS Now, I need to decide what I will have to exclude from my garden to make space for these new tomato varieties. Update: To find out how well these varieties grew in my garden, check out my 2016 Tomato Report post.. Further Update: As of August 2018, there is a third “W” hybrid with higher-than-normal lycopene content that they are including with the first two hybrids when you make a donation. NEW GARDEN TOOL: SOIL BLOCK MOLDS I bought a new toy tool for the garden this year, a set of soil block molds from Lee Valley Tools. They produce compressed cubes of potting soil that allow you to plant seeds without using pots. This was appealing for three reasons: I hate cleaning the smaller seed pots that I use for starting some seeds; I can plant the soil blocks directly into the garden without disturbing the seedlings MORE GARDEN GEM TOMATO SEEDS The tomato seeds that I was given for donating to Prof. Klee's research were nearly gone, so I decided to donate again on January 17th and see what I would get. Yesterday (February 3rd), I received a letter from the University of Florida with three seed packets. If you want to do the same, go WHAT’S THAT BLACK MOLD INSIDE MY TOMATOES? While slicing open recently harvested paste tomatoes for dinner last night, I found black mold growing inside the next-to-last tomato that I was going to use. I was surprised because there was no sign of a problem on the outside of the tomato. The next tomato had it too. I frantically searched through the tomatoes TRANSPLANTING SWEET WILLIAM Last June, I planted sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) 'extra dwarf mix' seeds in a window planter. As they are small plants, I feel they will have a chance in a small pot like this. Because the seed was quite old, I planted it pretty thickly. Of course, none germinated in one end of the containerTOMATO CAGES
The first tomato cages I used were some that I bought. They are pretty simple, just three upright pieces of wire welded to four wire hoops to make a cone shape. They measure eighteen inches (48 cm) across the top, which is the widest part. They are fifty-four inches (137 cm) tall, but the effective WHY DIDN’T WE HARVEST ANY CHERRIES THIS YEAR? Usually, we would have picked the fruit from my pie cherry tree (Prunus cerasus 'north star') by this time. This year, however, there were so few cherries on the tree that I didn't bother to cover it with bird netting. The birds happily ate the dozen or so cherries that the tree produced. The fault is I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY CACTUS! When I watered my cactus earlier this week, I noticed that it had what looked like blisters, some of them black, and a wound with dried mucilage attached. I've never seen this before, so I went down the hall and asked some biologists. Their guess was that it's caused by either an insect or aPRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
AUGUST | 2020 | GARDENBLOG2013 3 posts published by brianbreczinski during August 2020. When I requested more tomato seeds from Prof. Klee’s research project, I got a new variety, known simply as ‘W’, in addition to ‘garden gem’ and ‘garden treasure’.PRUNING THE LILAC
Today, I pruned the lilac bush. With spring-flowering shrubs, it is best to prune them when they have finished flowering. They will begin to prepare next year's flowers soon after this year's are done. You don't want to remove any flower buds into which they've putenergy.This is
EGGS ON MY EGGPLANT
This morning, we found an adult Colorado potato beetle on one of our eggplant. It was busy eating leaves. I captured and killed it. I've had lots of experience with these pests; see my posts What's Eating My Eggplant? and Beetle Battle. This afternoon, we checked the eggplant leaves and found several clusters of orange BEE IN THE MUSTARD FLOWERS Several of the plants in my cabbage and mustard greens bed survived the winter and continued growing this spring. We were able to harvest some kale and cabbage this spring (we’ve harvested kale in the spring before), but the mizuna and komatsuna quickly “bolted”, i.e. began to flower before we could use any.I planted the mizuna as a fall crop, but the komatsuna was a “volunteer” thatMORE SPRING FLOWERS
This is a collection of many photos of spring flowers that I've taken over the past month. From May 5th I have two of these red-flowering azalea bushes. This one was on the west side of the house, where it wasn't doing well. I moved it to a shady spot on the north side of BLACKBERRIES ARE BLOOMING! The blackberry brambles have been in bloom for at least a few days now. The white flowers, on the right side of the trellis in the first photo, belong to the triple crown blackberries. The middle bloom has lost its petals and is beginning to produce fruit. The pink flowers,on the left side of
NASTURTIUM & SWEET WILLIAM FLOWERS When I moved some flowers to my office last fall, I had a window planter full of flowering marigolds and a nasturtium. Since then, the marigolds all died and the nasturtium(s) (not sure how many plants are in there) flourished and bloomed. I grew nasturtium 'peach melba' in this planter a few years ago; they must have self-seeded SWEET WILLIAM BLOOMS They are the larger plants that were growing in the planter in the first photo in the post linked above. I don’t think these are the original plants that bloomed last spring, but “volunteer” plants that came from seed that those plants produced. More sweet William plants will bloom soon, including the only one that survived last winter outdoors in my large window planter. RE-POTTING THE DWARF POMEGRANATES My three dwarf pomegranate trees have been growing in some small pots for a couple of years, and I felt they needed larger pots to flourish. Pomegranates do well in dry conditions, so I chose terra-cotta pots that should help prevent waterlogged soil. To fill in the extra space in the larger pots, I used potting soil that2016 TOMATO REPORT
I grew six varieties of tomatoes this year. Here is my appraisal of their performance in my garden. I usually plant indeterminate tomatoes. This type of tomato will continue to grow and produce fruit until frost (or disease) kills the plant. The other type, determinate tomatoes, produce many fruits over a few weeks, then stop. Thetrade-off
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TOMATOES AND BEANS
Posted on Wednesday 24 July 2019by brianbreczinski
Because of the rainy weather, we didn’t harvest any vegetables on Sunday or Monday. Harvesting vegetables while the plants are wet canspread disease.
There were a lot of ripe tomatoes to pick last night (Tuesday). tomatoes and beans (see text for varieties) In the bowl are ‘cherry bomb’ (red) and ‘sungold’ (yellow) tomatoes. Going clockwise from the ‘fortex’ pole beans at the top right, we have ‘garden gem’ (9), ‘plum regal’ (2), ‘dwarf sleeping lady’ (3), ‘defiant’ (5) and ‘garden treasure’ (3) tomatoes. These are the first ‘garden treasure’ and ‘plum regal’ tomatoes that we’ve harvested this year. The other varieties all started producing earlier, with ‘sungold’ starting to ripen almost a month ago.
We had to discard a few tomatoes. A couple had been partially eaten by birds or squirrels, a few had what looked like bacterial spots, and one had cracked. For more on tomato fruit problems, see this excellent article by the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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FIRST BEANS
Posted on Tuesday 16 July 2019by
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We picked the first beans of the season this morning. ‘fortex’ pole beans These are the ‘fortex’ variety of pole beans,
which is the only variety I planted this year. The plants grow fast and produce many large, tasty pods. I used to plant only the ‘Kentucky blue’ variety, then ’emerite’ became my favorite, but when that variety was sold out last year, I tried ‘fortex’ and decided it was the best.SHARE THIS:
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DAIKON
Posted on Friday 05 July 2019by
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I planted two varieties of daikon on April 8th, ‘April cross’, some of which we harvested today, and ‘minowase’, which soon began to produce flowers and seeds rather than the roots that we want. daikon ‘April cross’ The main part of the larger root, at the bottom of the photo, is 4.5 by 24 cm (1¾ by 9½ inches).SHARE THIS:
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PEPPERS
Posted on Thursday 04 July 2019by
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We picked a half dozen peppers this afternoon, including the first fruit from the ‘Aconcagua’ variety. peppers ‘sweet banana’ (3), ‘Aconcagua’ (1), and ‘Takiis newace’ (2)
According to Pinetree Garden Seeds,
where I bought the seeds for all these peppers, the ‘Aconcagua’ peppers can get quite large. They also say that picking the first fruits a bit early will cause the remaining fruits to grow faster. The ‘Aconcagua’ peppers took longer than the other two varieties to produce the first usable fruits, but the plants are larger and perhaps they will produce more heavily in the long run.SHARE THIS:
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FIRST RIPE TOMATOES
Posted on Tuesday 25 June 2019by brianbreczinski
As I had hoped
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we were able to pick our first ripe tomatoes before the end of June. We picked two fruits of tomato ‘sungold’ last night (June 24th). Not a big harvest, but they were delicious. tomato ‘sungold’ fruits These tomatoes were growing in the same bunch. The plant produces flowers and fruit in sequence down the bunch, so the tomato on the left in the photo is a little more ripe than the one on the right. We also picked a few more peas. We
didn’t get much from the plants this year and they are already dying off. We picked some black raspberries too. The raspberry fruits are small this year, perhaps because the brambles were covered by a “volunteer” squash or gourd vine last summer and thus weren’t able to grow well.SHARE THIS:
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BROCCOLI IS MAKING HEADS Posted on Thursday 20 June 2019by brianbreczinski
I’m growing broccoli for the first time this year. The variety I selected, ‘aspabroc’, is unusual. Rather than allowing it to grow a large head, it’s recommended (by the seed companies that sell it) that you harvest the initial crown as soon as it forms, so that the plant will send up more shoots and continue to produce for a monthor more.
broccoli ‘aspabroc’ with approximately two inch (5 cm) head I was initially under the impression that the name ‘aspabroc’ referred to a flavor similar to asparagus, but now I’ve read that it is called that because the stalks are tender like asparagus and can be eaten without being peeled. I should harvest these stalks soon so that the plants will begin making new shoots. I planted the ‘aspabroc’ broccoli seeds indoors at the same time as my cabbage and kale seeds on March 20th. I transplanted the young plants into my garden exactly a month later.SHARE THIS:
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PEPPERS & PEAS
Posted on Wednesday 19 June 2019by
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We harvested peppers for the first time and peas for the second time last night (Wednesday, June 18th). peppers ‘Takiis new ace’ and ‘sweet banana’ and pea ‘supersugar snap’
I’ve read that picking pepper fruit before they begin to ripen will induce the plants to produce more fruit. Since these were getting fairly large, I decided to pick them. They’ve grown quite a bit since the beginning of the month.
Of course, peppers are commonly used before they ripen. Both of these varieties, ‘Takiis new ace’ and ‘sweet banana’, have done well in my garden over the years. I planted pepper seeds on March 3rd and transplanted the pepper plants into the garden on May2nd this year.
The ‘super sugar snap’ peas need to be harvested every couple of days, or whenever it stops raining in my garden. These are meant to be eaten whole, pod and all, rather than shelling them. The past two years, something ate my pea vines before they could produce any pods. This year, I sprayed the vines every few days with Liquid Fence™, a mixture of garlic and rotten eggs that is supposed to repel various animals. It seems to have worked this time. I’ve also had a problem with animals digging up and eating the pea seeds before they can grow. This year, I covered the area where I planted the peas with chicken wire and I also covered it with black plastic to try to warm the ground. I removed the plastic after the peas began to sprout and grow. In addition to spraying the vines with Liquid Fence™ after they came up, I also sprayed it on the soil where I planted the peas. No pea seeds were dug up, so this also seems to have worked. I still had poor germination of the peas despite the black plastic. They seem to need warmer temperatures to germinate, but because peas grow best in cool weather, I plant them as early as I dare. Thisyear, I planted
them on April 6th.
Although the peas are producing pods now, I fear it won’t last long. Some vines are already dying, either from disease or because of warmer temperatures. I already planted some cucumbers near the peas, like I did last year.
After the peas are finished, I hope the cucumbers will make use of the vacated space on the trellis.SHARE THIS:
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BLACKBERRY FLOWER
Posted on Wednesday 12 June 2019by brianbreczinski
The blackberry brambles began to flower in late May. It takes about two months from that point until ripe blackberries are ready to pick. This photo was taken on June 1st. blackberry flower and buds More information on blackberries can be found in these earlier posts: * Pruning & More Pruning * Blackberries are blooming! * Monday Morning Harvest* Blackberry Jam
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TOMATOES & PEPPERS HAVE FRUITS Posted on Friday 07 June 2019by brianbreczinski
I first noticed that some varieties of tomatoes and peppers had begun setting fruit about two or three weeks ago. These photos were taken on June 1st. Maybe there’ll be ripe tomatoes before the end ofJune!
Tomato ‘sungold’ is a cherry type tomato. Small-fruited or cherry type tomatoes are usually among the first toripen.
This is the first year I’ve grown tomato ‘defiant’. Tomato ‘defiant’ is also known to ripen early although it should produce medium-sized fruit. It is supposed to be resistant to lateblight
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This pepper variety, ‘Takiis ace’ or ‘Takiis new ace’, produces early and heavily. The red color on the side of the fruit is a reflection, not the color of the pepper. It has a lot of growing to do before the fruit begins to turn red.SHARE THIS:
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WILL COMMERCIAL TOMATOES BE BRED TO BE TASTIER? Posted on Thursday 16 May 2019by brianbreczinski
Maybe. Biologists at Cornell University have developed a pan-genome for tomatoes, using information from hundreds of varieties including wild relatives. The previously known, reference tomato genome was derived from a single variety, Heinz 1706. At least one newly discovered allele which is rare in domesticated tomatoes but common in wild tomatoes is known to contribute to flavor and could enhance tomatoes if it were bred back into the plants we grow. It will probably take several years however before we see the results of this newly discovered information. See the article in New Atlasand the
original scientific publication in Nature.
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