Midsummer Eval....
Jul. 17th, 2008 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdehnersWell, not the "Best of Times" but certainly not the "Worst":>....
Three strikes. No more European melons or Standard Watermelons. They can't handle the local EC without fungicides. Asian Melons and Icebox Watermelons have grown well and produced but I have to ask myself if it's worth having a truck-sized bit of land for a single plant that will produce at best two fruits?
Rice. Doing quite well as a Bog plant. This particular cultivar, a Japanese Short grained has handled everything it's been handled. While there's not reason beyond mystical to grow it at Present, it's always good to have a foundational grain seed available...just in case. My attempts with others in my climate have been poor, even for dollies....
Sweet Potatoes: The Purple Korean ones already in the ground are growing slower than I expected. The starts I got a couple of weeks ago are now mostly up to 4" pots as of today. As soon as they are ready to pot up they'll be ready for the garden. Unfortunately, the Okinawaan starts I was given have rooted, all but one. Keeping my fingered braided.
The various Hot Peppers and Eggplants are doing well. I'm fairly sure the Cukes are done for the yr. The Name and Chayote Vines are doing well. The Akebia fruits are now the size of small bananas. Now if they'll just turn blue I can try them!
Cheers,
Pat
Three strikes. No more European melons or Standard Watermelons. They can't handle the local EC without fungicides. Asian Melons and Icebox Watermelons have grown well and produced but I have to ask myself if it's worth having a truck-sized bit of land for a single plant that will produce at best two fruits?
Rice. Doing quite well as a Bog plant. This particular cultivar, a Japanese Short grained has handled everything it's been handled. While there's not reason beyond mystical to grow it at Present, it's always good to have a foundational grain seed available...just in case. My attempts with others in my climate have been poor, even for dollies....
Sweet Potatoes: The Purple Korean ones already in the ground are growing slower than I expected. The starts I got a couple of weeks ago are now mostly up to 4" pots as of today. As soon as they are ready to pot up they'll be ready for the garden. Unfortunately, the Okinawaan starts I was given have rooted, all but one. Keeping my fingered braided.
The various Hot Peppers and Eggplants are doing well. I'm fairly sure the Cukes are done for the yr. The Name and Chayote Vines are doing well. The Akebia fruits are now the size of small bananas. Now if they'll just turn blue I can try them!
Cheers,
Pat
