Jardín del Gotch

[Homegrwoninillinois]

I believe for whatever reason my plant had an overly large number of megablooms which may have caused this.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Despite an uninspiring sauce/paste variety season, a couple have done well; after two (2) seasons without, the Red Sausage makes a comeback:

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Also part of the permanent rotation; Cornue des Andes:

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More Red Sausage:

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Both:

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The Gotch

[bower]

They both look really productive.
The Cornue des Andes looks like a bell pepper! Pretty huge.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

They both look really productive.

They are. And both VERY easy to process into yumminess, as well.

The Cornue des Andes looks like a bell pepper! Pretty huge.

CdA is 'bout as meaty (IMO) of a paste Tomato as yer gonna find, along with newcomer Super Sauce Hybrid. Jersey Devil (https://www.ufseeds.com/product/jersey- ... q3EALw_wcB) is similarly shaped, but it failed to launch this year.

The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

The Jardín del Gotch Futures Market is officially open; far right KY Beefsteak shows it's a productive late...um...bloomer:

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The Gotch

[bboomer]

I just saw his amazing garden! Plus Sr. Gooch gave me several tomatoes to taste test!! Thanks hermano

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[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

I just saw his amazing garden! Plus Sr. Gooch gave me several tomatoes to taste test!! Thanks hermano

De nada, amigo; ahora, no seas un extraño.

El Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

On this beautiful early fall day, coupla KY Beefsteaks rounded into ripeness:

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The lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch selected one for her lunch; the verdict: Très meaty and very pleasantly and mildly sweet...but not "tomatoey." Still, whatta looker, am I right?

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The Gotch

[PlainJane]

Looks like nice BLT material.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Assorted "futures."

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Final harvest of this season's underperforming Roulette Hybrid Peppers:

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Final results of a good Old German year:

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Later today's Salsa fixin's:

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The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Seeing this beautiful Tomato Growing weather is drawing to a close, I pulled my last six (6) vines today: Two (2) each of Cornue des Andes, Mountain Magic, & Red Sausage; salvaged some ripeys, set aside some futures, composted the rest.

They, and ~50 of their recently departed brethren, were planted ~192 days ago (April 2nd); it rained 2"/>5cms and snowed 5.5"/~14cms that day.

I did mention that I planted them indoors, right?

Anywho, all of 'em gone leaves me feeling kinda empty.

Glass half full?

Those trays-n-trays of greenies are ripenening...

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The Gotch

[JayneR13]

Of course you planted them indoors! This is 'Scansin. No one plants outdoors that early. LOL And you're a slow poke! I started my tomatoes & peppers March 1. Because it takes a good week or so for them to germinate before they get planted. I'm a wet paper towel gardener.

Hard freeze is due here early next week. I'll harvest the last of my brassicas soon after that, namely, cabbages. I harvested 83# of tomatoes from the food pantry garden and started pulling plants yesterday. It's time. Sad but true. Time to rest, for us and for the soil.

[BlackKrim]

CdA is 'bout as meaty (IMO) of a paste Tomato as yer gonna find, along with newcomer Super Sauce Hybrid. Jersey Devil (https://www.ufseeds.com/product/jersey- ... q3EALw_wcB) is similarly shaped, but it failed to launch this year.

Hi. I am not disagreeing with you, but I have grown both Cornue and Cow's Tit, and found the latter to be even more impressive re meaty-ness, but that is just my opinion.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Hi. I am not disagreeing with you, but I have grown both Cornue and Cow's Tit, and found the latter to be even more impressive re meaty-ness, but that is just my opinion.

(checks notes) What??? No Cow's Tit on deck for 2025...yet...?

The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Those trays-n-trays of greenies are ripenening...
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Proof Positive:

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The Gotch

[BlackKrim]

@The Gotch. I kinda like your funny signature! I am not sure what spade caking clay is but it does not sound good. In my various residences I have never been blessed with good soil (sometimes NO soil at all in the yard) so always had to struggle mightily one way or another to obtain or change what was not there. I love reading stories about others in the same boat and how they coped, and ended up with a not-bad garden.

Everyone: all stories on soil woes welcome. The more detail the better.

[JayneR13]

Clay soil here, a bit north of The Gotch. My soil differs in different areas of the yard. Some places will grow things, such as blackberry, garlic, and lavender. Other parts will grow only blackberry. In addition to planting things suited to the very wet, low pH soil, I use raised beds.

[BlackKrim]

Clay soil here, a bit north of The Gotch. My soil differs in different areas of the yard. Some places will grow things, such as blackberry, garlic, and lavender. Other parts will grow only blackberry. In addition to planting things suited to the very wet, low pH soil, I use raised beds.

Where do you obtain the soil to fill those raised beds?

Me - I spent 3 years going with a bucket, spade & wheel barrow, 1/4 mile from home, to dig up good, virgin, never-touched fabulously beautiful soil (still our property though; I am not a thief.) Maybe 75 loads. Yes, I am nuts. Hey, I would've killed for low-pH. Our soil was mighty alkaline on our country property.

[Tormahto]

Here I am on the 30th page scribbling more names into my must find list. That thing sure is growing! That being said…I grew orange accordion and wasn’t a fan. It ripened in sections and by the time the last bit was ripe the first portion was fermenting :/

-Sam

You do realize that Wisconsin is a state with a lot of fermenting going on?

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Where do you obtain the soil to fill those raised beds?

We're all raised beds, here. And down this way, we have Purple Cow Organics (https://www.purplecoworganics.com/). Up until recently, we'd have a coupla yards delivered every few years or so. Now we have four (4) composting bins (all free!) producing wicked good stuff.

We also have an across the street neighbor with a 2 acre + lot who "processes" his grass clippings and leaves with a riding mulcher, which I avail, with gusto, each fall to top off the beds.

Spade Caking Clay is the kind of sticky stuff you's need to scrape off'n yer shovel with a spackling knife. The reference was born when I was tasked with clearing ~2000 sf/~186 sm of the dastardly Non-Variegated Bishops Weed and Lilies Of The Valley from our backyard. I wouldn't expect anyone not blessed with the...um...experience to understand.

The difference between love and Non-Variegated Bishops Weed? Non-Variegated Bishops Weed is forever...

Anywho, it took me > five (5) weeks of three (3) hours a day of digging it up, clump by clump, and crumbling it to remove every last remnant of despicable root. A neighbor who occasionally observed my dutiful efforts speculated that I just might wear that shovel out; high praise!

To this day, I claim to hate but three (3) things in life:
1) The Chicago Bears
2) running into a freezing, wind-whipped rain, and
3) Non-Variegated Bishops Weed.

The Gotch