The Garden of Woz in the land of OZ

[KarenO]

Looks perfect they are stingy with seeds for sure but it makes them so smooth and delicious to eat
I’m very happy you enjoy them and that they produced so well in challenging weather.
Thank you for showing the great photos. I’m sort of jealous, I would love to have that for my supper!
Karen

[Whwoz]

Would send you the next one, but it would not last the distance, plenty on them, will try and count/photo plants showing fruit.

[KarenO]

Originally Posted by Whwoz

Would send you the next one, but it would not last the distance, plenty on them, will try and count/photo plants showing fruit.

That would be really great if you can. I love to see ripe fruit but it’s very important to me to see the plant itself when that’s possible. It gives so much information to me. Focus is on fruit and rightly so but I’m very interested in plant health and disease tolerance as well
Thank you!
Karen

[mcsee]

Take a video Woz and send privately.

[Whwoz]

Originally Posted by mcsee

Take a video Woz and send privately.

Interesting thought Mcsee, will see what I can do

[Whwoz]

Easy to see and taste why KarenO has used this as a parent. F+Good but some of its offspring are better.

[Whwoz]

The Dwarf that I found by chance from the indeterminate Low Acid Yellow which is sold commercially locally, seems to be stable and has settled out as something much bigger than its parent. I will often eat these straight off the bush in the garden. I am calling it Bowerbird's Yellow and seed will be available shortly if anyone is interested. First pic is of a different fruit to the other three.

[Whwoz]

One for Mcsee, this fruit of Duncan's Dutch pear was sitting on the bench for a couple of weeks before I got around to cutting it. Very few seeds in three or four cavities only. Will return next year for sauce making in particular. 10.5 oz.

[mcsee]

Looks good Woz, well for a sauce tomato. A very unstable/unpredictable variety for sure.

[Whwoz]

Saved some seed from that tomato Mcsee, will grow again next year and see what I get

[Whwoz]

Photo showing Midnight Sun x 2. Plant to the left is Captain Lucky, certainly the largest Potato leaf in the patch and maybe the biggest overall, too the right is Mat-Su Express and the few small fruit in front are Blush.

Midnight Sun is showing the affects of the long cool and relatively humid summer we have had after the fires, plus a few cooler nights that we are starting to get, down to 5C/40F on its older leaves. New growth is still beautifully clean. Need to prune a few leaves off to show full load.

[Whwoz]

I have written before about wanting to get some seed off Sweet potato to establish a locally adapted variety. Getting flowers has been a big problem and while I have been supplied with 10 or so varieties, it is only within the last week that I have seen flowers on the ornamental strain, none on any of the others so far. To try to assist in the development of flowers I am growing some cuttings in the dam water to see if this promotes flowering, as indicated elsewhere that it has worked for at least one strain.

Setup is 90mm glued into a square as a float under a plastic pallet and weighted with terracotta pots so that the bottom inch of each pot is in the water, plants are grown individually in 75mm pots, with two slips in a 125 mm pot in the center of the pallet. Some photos of main SP patch included.

[Whwoz]

Of the four Dahlias we have, this one is the most wind exposed and has lost two main stems as a result

[Whwoz]

This was the first to flower and is the largest plant, must dead head.

[Whwoz]

A very pale green flower