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September 11, 2018 | #1382 |
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Cute seedlings
I’d let them be at this stage and see how they do, the bent one may straighten up yet on its own. By all means plant them all if you wish, you’ll be able to get a lot of seed from your fruit later on. Will you be putting them in pots or in ground later on KarenO |
September 11, 2018 | #1383 |
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Karen, they will all go in the ground here, simply do not have the time in our summer heat to do pots. Will probably plant one in the grey soil and one in our local silt. The one I will pass onto my parents will wind up in a totally different soil type again, although I do have a small amount of that red soil in the bed in the photo in my Garden of Woz thread.
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September 12, 2018 | #1384 |
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As you suggested ladies, the bent one has straightened up
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September 12, 2018 | #1385 |
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September 13, 2018 | #1386 |
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All 5 potted up and last 2 seeds sown, will be passing a few about to see what others think of them also
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September 14, 2018 | #1387 |
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September 14, 2018 | #1388 |
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No real pests here to worry about Marsha. The beauty of growing on what was farmland and swamp, nowhere for pests to hide and if they were to dig holes they would be flooded out as currently water-table is roughly level with the surface of the ground
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September 14, 2018 | #1389 |
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I was referring to weather events.
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September 15, 2018 | #1390 |
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Weather not to bad from now on. Have a number of small greenhouses that are up against the walls of the house protecting the seedlings from frost. The frost that we had several weeks back didn't upset them at all and I am not expecting anything harder than those. Likewise rain and wind are not to bad from now on. Some of those that I am planning on passing a seedling on to are more protected than we are.
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September 15, 2018 | #1391 | |
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September 23, 2018 | #1392 |
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Last two seedlings are up, will pot up in a couple of days
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September 29, 2018 | #1393 |
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Happy to hear your seedlings are up and off to the races downunder
I received this picture from my friend in Edmonton yesterday, still has some ripening in the topside of the planet too Marsha has her winter plants potted up too My own KARMAs are almost done, just s few green fruit left to ripen. All of the colours will be available for trial for 2019 |
September 29, 2018 | #1394 |
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As I stated in my season review, for some reason my outdoor KP tomatoes ripened late. Most began ripening after 90 days (about September 1st), but after that I got quite a few every day until the frost we had three days ago, when there were still a lot on the plant. The two plants produced so many for a while, that I froze lots for sauce later. And I'm sure that sauce will be delicious! I love the burst of tartness from the gel when you first bite into the fruit, followed by sublime sweetness when you chew the flesh.
I'm sure the tardiness was caused by my conditions. I had to water them daily do to the heat (It was the hottest summer here ever.), and I tried a time-release fertilizer that was too heavy on the nitrogen. Steve |
September 29, 2018 | #1395 |
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better late than never Steve
So happy you enjoyed the flavour, perhaps they didn’t set the earlier blooms due to the heat? Pleased you liked them once they produced some fruit for you. Karen |
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