Worthless Garden.

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Tomatoes getting ripe on the vines.

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You need to wrap around the wire in the other direction.
You can't make me.
That's right almost all bean vines will climb in this direction.
There may be one or two I read about someplace but for the most part it is in this direction just in case you didn't know.

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Tomato plants stalled out growing.
Sure sign they ran out of gas.
Or is it the heat?
Probably the rain washed the fertilizer out as well as growth.
Added more fertilizer today and will see what happens.
You simply can't get growth without nitrogen.
These containers have a lot of plants to feed.
And the soil is really low.
Another bean is now on the wire.

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I went out to water again but I watered yesterday too because the top was dried out.
I watered again today after the fertilizer.
It seems they are growing as I see new growth on the main stems.
What's actually going on is more branches are growing and putting on tomatoes.

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I got home late yesterday and one of my tubs was out of water and the tomato plants were limp.
So I watered everything.
Time to plug the drain holes.

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The cargamanto beans have really grown since the last time I reported on them.
I don't ever remember bean leaves almost the size of dinner plates.
But they are a rather off the wall South American veriety so who knows.
The front runner is branching big time too.
But no blooms yet.
The next in line has found it's way to the tomato cage and the straggler has busted out a move and running up the wire with the front runner.

Tomato plants are coming on really strong and loaded with tomatoes many are getting red ripe on the vines.

Swiss chard what can I say.
Probably one of the easiest plants to grow and doing fine.

Carrots are continuing to grow and the peanut plants are doing well.

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Various pictures.
Look at the size of that bean leaf.

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Are the cargamanto beans for fresh eating @worth1?

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Are the cargamanto beans for fresh eating @worth1?

The only place I can find them is at a Fiesta market in Austin.
They have all manner of dried beans there you can't find any place else.
Many from South America.
My adventure started while looking for cranberry beans AKA Roman beans AKA who knows what.
So I'm growing the beans for the seeds because the ones I got to sprout where bought in 2020.
I might try some green pods too.
I might try to soak some overnight and see if I get better results.
Looking on line these beans have many names and different types or colors.
The only person I've met personally that knew what they were is from Chile and were my neighbors.
But he and his wife moved to Houston.
Oscar and Alexandria were their names.
Pulled a lot of information from them while they were here about peppers and so on.
My old dog boxer/pit Boo Boo loved Alexandria but didn't really care for Oscar.
Not that he would growl or anything but just stayed away from him and go nozzle Alexandria.
He wouldn't even take a dog treat from him.
But ran up to Alexandria wagging his tail as soon as he met her.
Boo Boo was a very shy non aggressive dog but very protective of us.

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Everything thing I hear and know about Chile indicates they have amazing produce there. Evidently, they send their best wines to Asia or Europe where the big money is and the US gets their second tier offerings, not that those aren’t excellent. A trickle of fresh fruit from Chile makes it here, the blueberries and kiwi are outstanding. Funny how this produce can hitch a ride on a Plane and still be better and less expensive than some of the domestic offerings. My wife’s nephew’s groomsman Pablo was from Chile. They met at UT. Pablo married there in Austin, but I think to American and they are living in Chile.

Chile is one of those countries that is intriguing to me. Only 18 million people in an area larger than Texas. The longest north-south axis country in the world spanning 39° of latitude. Laid on North America, with Tierra del Fuego on Mexico City, the northern tip of Chile would be well north of Winnipeg, Manitoba. High snowcapped Andean Peaks, fertile valleys, deserts, an almost endless coastline. What’s not to like?

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Oscar told me the produce from Chile wasn't as good as the produce from the US.
And in Chile the produce from the US wasn't as good as the produce from Chile.
Mostly talking about fruit.
No matter what the produce from the store isn't as good as what you can grow at home.
I know this because every fruit I ever ate was grown wild or from our vast orchards and gardens growing up.
You couldn't pay me to bring home store bought strawberries plums or other such things.
They totally suck and void of any sugar because they were grown for production or picked too soon.

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I think I'll make a pint of tomato preserves with some of the tomatoes.

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Yesterday I saw a leaf even bigger than the one in the picture.
It's huge.
Whatever bean plant this is it's going to be monsterous.
Branches forming everywhere.

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No need to fantasize.
The dill ain't gonna happen in this heat.
I bought a package of dried pulla chilies and will plant some of the seeds.
A pulla or maybe sometimes called a puya from what I can tell is somewhere between a guajillo and a chili de arbol in terms of heat.
But fruity flavor.
Sometimes these peppers get mixed up in spelling.
It appears it may be a close relative to the so called Holland pepper of which I can't find anywhere.
Needless to say I have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain.

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I grew a "Puya" here and it was a nice pepper. Shorter and stockier shape than the Guajillo; hotter with a fruity touch as you said, but iirc otherwise similar taste profile. I dried them and used them for seasoning and they add more heat than 'fruity'. Whereas the Guajillo was great for fresh eating and seasoning at once.

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Well if I can drag my lazy butt outside into the heat I'll plant some.
Right now the darn peanut plants have exploded in growth.
And next week more triple digit weather.
One day showed 105F.
The carrots have went dormant for the summer but they should come back when it cools off.

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The best way to tell what a dried pepper is like is to remove the seeds and chew on it.
I just folded up a whole pulla pod in my mouth and chewed it up like a tobacco chaw.
Seeds removed.
Fruity yet a considerable amount of heat.
Not unbearable but getting there and a perfect blend with the flavor.
The seeds were planted out in the container.

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Oh yes my spiders are making webs all around the plants so I have to be careful so as not to disturb them.

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Hot Texas summer grasshoppers are here and I pulled my first juvenile hornworm before it did much damage.
Found a frog (not a toad) in the plants too.
Looked like a Leppard frog.

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I can't believe that Juliet is setting fruit in this 200 plus heat and humidity.
Unbelievable but it's true.
I am not helping in any way.
No thumping or vibrating or anything.
I wish I had a hundred plants of these things.