Further garden updates
Tomatoes are winding down. I suppose. There's a few left out there (a couple of green and pink cherries) but everything else is in and, at this point in the year, unless we have a VERY mild fall/winter, the odds of any new fruit showing up is remote, so what few flowers there are are probably meaningless.
Similar with the common beans, there are flowers and a few smallish early pods, but it's hard to imagine much more will reach maturity. By now, I've half a mind to (except for the few that I'm actually still short of) to start harvesting early and see if any make decent snap beans.
The Wild mung pot is wining down. Looks like it isn't as great an option as the wild rice beans or soybeans were. It grows readily enough, and flowers and pods readily enough, but seems to have the same issue the domestic soybeans used to have; once the pods reach full mature size, they just sort of STAY in that state and never actually reach the point where the seed finishes maturing. I've waited until the pods felt fully hollow/squishy (my benchmark for telling when they are harvestable, as leaving them to dry down all the way risked having them explode. It works for everything else.) and the seed is STILL sort of green (which, for this type of mung bean, is NOT the normal mature color, the ones I planted tended towards brown.)
The accidental mung is now done, but the long pot is now pumping its out, Hopefully I'll get back some of those brown as well (they're from an Afghani landrace that can be green OR brown, depending on the plants).
Since it stopped growing at such a small size (maybe that of a ping pong ball). I've decided the last Dosaki cucumber is better left to ripen fully to provide more seeds for next year rather than be used for food. It's staying out there until it's either fully yellow/ripe, or the vine it's attached to dies (at which point keeping it out there is both pointless and risky, as there ARE things that will eat them if they reach the ground.) It's beginning to yellow now, so it shouldn't be that much longer, maybe a week or two.
The lablab vines are already beginning to wither (I guess that, as a tropical plant, even cool temperatures ABOVE freezing can harm them quite a bit).
The mouse garlic will be harvested, but not until a bit later, as I want to wait until whatever that other vine that is in there dies off. They SAY you can preserve them by salting, but whether they mean packing them in just salt or pickling them I'll have to check.
There are now two jackfruit seedlings in the pot I planted. Depending on how many grow, maybe I'll try and offer the rest online in the spring (over the winter won't work, as I have no cheap way of keeping them from freezing in transport).
Since I've abandoned that plot, I'll never know how long it might have taken to eliminate them (or not).
This is the worst damage yet since I started growing peppers in large numbers.
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