Some are smaller, but overall I'm very happy with the size!
One was HUGE but had a sizeable hole drilled into the middle of it by some critter, and it had some rotting with various critters nibbling at it, so obviously tossed that one.
Adventures in growing edibles veganically in a small townhouse backyard in Ottawa, Canada. (veganic since ~2021)
Some are smaller, but overall I'm very happy with the size!
One was HUGE but had a sizeable hole drilled into the middle of it by some critter, and it had some rotting with various critters nibbling at it, so obviously tossed that one.
Harvested the cantelope today because both tendrils where the stem joins were completely dried up, and I worried about theft, especially since it was my one and only cantelope.
I think it needed more time on the vine though, because while it's perfectly edible, it's not particularly sweet or flavourful.
Even though the ground cherry plants at the allotment are only inches high, they're delivering a decent harvest! Finally had enough today to make a pie.
Saw a green praying mantis wandering in my garden! I have a feeling s/he must have come from an egg sac that someone bought, but who knows. Cool regardless.
Yeesh, another bit of a measly year for the backyard zukes -- after the initial flush, they just petered out and don't look like they're doing much of anything -- the females are dying before even opening. So, removed the tulle today and will let them live out their days.
So, yay! The sad, pathetic tomato plants (which are very much like a lot of our allotment people's tomatoes) are managing to yield a few tomatoes each. Not going to be tons of batches of tomato sauce, but, enjoying the ones that are coming in!
So far that's ___ pounds from the GA potatoes.
Harvested some onions today. I think they were from the sets, rather than my home seed starts. Not gonnan lie, they're definitely on the small side! But they're onions none the less! I'll use them in upcoming recipes, not likely to be many to put away.
For the first time since seeing a few eggs earlier in the summer, today I saw squash bugs! Nymphs specifically! They were on a SVB-doomed zucchini, so I just pulled the whole plant. Didn't notice any squash bugs anywhere else, but also didn't go looking for them.
Oh my holy heck, cushaws are GINORMOUS!!! My first time growing them (other than last year or a past year when none actually took). There are about 4 huge ones growing at GA at the moment. Each is enough to feed an army or two or ten. They aren't ready yet, as the stems are still very green. We'll see if they "disappear" before I can harvest them...
I picked the blushing ones, because of the dump of rain yesterday, in case they crack.
The GA potatoes have all died! Whereas the ones in the yard are very green and healthy-looking. Not sure if the difference is the variety, the amount of sun, disease or lack thereof, etc.
Anyway, dug up a bit of both GA patches. The SW patch that had the Colorado potato beetles had a bit of a scrawny harvest, whereas the NE patch that was covered from day one and didn't have CPBs had bigger potatoes. But the difference could also be the variety, who knows.