Can't believe it, but the tomatoes are done! Completing that job has been hanging like a millstone around my neck for days! Feel SO satisfied to mark that task off the list. I did it all outdoors this time, and the wasps were hovering around me like a cloud. Unbelievable. I dispatched quite a few, but more showed up.
This variety was such a nice surprise. I haven't grown it in years, and don't recall anything in particular about it, but the taste was excellent and productivity was quite high. It definitely stood out this summer from the others. It handled extreme weather like a breeze. I picked it originally for the name; I had a cousin named Sputnik (for the Russian satellite I believe) and this seemed a match for him.
Here is my Jacob's Cattle Gold little mini miracle. Not bad for 6 runts in an abysmal summer.
Pepper harvest today. Next seed saving job + I think I want to make some soup stocks for the freezer with these. I've used lots of peppers chopped up in various dishes, and I've roasted and frozen them before, but I'm not torn up about that method of preservation. So, we'll see how good a stock I can make with them.
Found these growing on the grass; they were growing in with the soup peas but when I pulled those vines down these came down too.
The bean load on 'Audrey 3'
I've cut close to a dozen off already, but I'm waiting on these ones to get a bit more orange. If I see rain in the forecast I'll pull them out - lots of snails this season on the pumpkins. I really should have nipped the ends of the vines so they would make one pumpkin only, but they got all tangled and I couldn't see what for what. So, they are a bit smaller than I would have liked.
It is seldom I see a true yellow heritage pepper, or even tomato, most of them are more gold, but I found these a couple days ago. They must be a cross, as the pepper was supposed to be red.
The reality of tomatillos. They cover the ground, then small animals nibble them! The cages were lifesavers for such octopus plants, but getting the groundfalls is a bit tricky.
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