The Garden of Woz...

[Whwoz]

Summertime Green is a Dwarf project variety, one of the earlier ones and quite a good one. Plants get up around the 3 feet/1 meter mark and load up with 30 plus fruit. Late rain or uneven watering can make them crack a bit. Good in sandwiches, the biggest this year 370g/13oz.

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[Whwoz]

Tangella, grew three of these thinking that I wouldn't get a hugh amount off them foursome reason. Only one a year from now on even though they are well liked by all, very productive.

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[Whwoz]

Teschckin Yazyk, a good sized meaty paste type. Reasonabily productive but not a match for the Costuloto's or RST in terms of volume produced per plant. Worth another go.

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[Whwoz]

UK 2000, this tomato has absolutely nothing to do with the United Kingdom, but was found on a farm, unprotected and untended in the year 2000. It is delicious, typical supermarket size to slightly larger,around the 200g/7 oz mark. Productivity is about average, but it may well do better in a sunnier season.

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[Whwoz]

Zena's Gift, one from @KarenO that has done well this year, lots of big half kilo fruit that are very meaty and taste fabulous. May very well make it into the grow every year catagory. Just need to see how well it grows in a long hot summer. These two are both over the half kilo mark.

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[Whwoz]

Ok, just turned 1/3 of a crate, or six kilograms, of Green tomatoes into green tomato relish. This has allowed me to do some rough calculations on how much was picked off the plants this season. Based on above, each crate weighs about 40 lb, 12 crates equals 480 lb, plus what has been picked for eating and is still on the bushes would see a yield of over 550 lb. Considering most ripened in 3 weeks, we did not do too badly in dealing with them.

[Whwoz]

The tomato season is over here at the garden of Woz, pulled the last plants this morning. Pulled the only crystal apple cucumber, which did not do too badly considering it got swamped at one stage. The Japanese Climbing Cucumbers are doing well 10 fruit on the largest plant, 3 on another and 4 on the third. Should not be any issues with these maturing as weather still mild.

[MissS]

It looks like you had a very good tomato season. I have enjoyed reading this thread throughout my winter. Thank you for showing us how your garden evolved over the year and sharing your tomato evaluations. This whole thread is a pleasure.

[Whwoz]

Thank you @MissS for your kind words. I still have a few more varieties to wrap up for the season,one or two with photos, others just comments. Still things happening here, with no snow settling here in winter there is always something growing. Still have work to finish off on the big garden bed as well. Lots to do, then the fun can really start, the planning of next year's tomato crop.

[GoDawgs]

You know, it seems like you were just getting all those['maters planted not so long ago. Time sure flies when you're having fun, eh? Reading about your summer garden takes the edge off the winter drearies, especially for the snowbound up north and even for those of us down south who can grow some things through the winter.

So what's on tap for fall? Greens? Cabbage and broccoli?

[Whwoz]

Time does indeed fly @GoDawgs. I have some of the Asian greens sitting out on the deck ready to go in the ground, somehow, with all the things going on here, never got around to digging all the potatoes that I planted and noticed that they are well up in among the grass over them now, so they need cleaning up and a heavy mulch, hopefully no frosts for them over winter.

Cabbage and broccoli are something we react to a bit of we eat too much of, so they don't get grown here. Tried picking up a punnet of seedlings of a red and a green cabbage the other day and could feel them on the basket,so back they went. Hard to properly explain explain what I feel other than to say it is like your body pushing you away from them.

Need to get lettuce and peas in as well, we grow peas mainly over winter here, fungal problems can occur in summer with them. Seems to me that you could do the same @GoDawgs .

Need to put out some spray, have recently read about a vinegar and Epsom salt recipe I intend to try to may have to get heavy handed on the Kikuyu though.

[Growing Coastal]

Frost shouldn't hurt the potatoes at all. Here, left over strays overwinter in the ground and come up again in spring early enough to get their leaf tips burned by late frosts and do well as the season progresses.

[Whwoz]

Picked another 1/3 crate of capsicum/bell pepper today, mainly orange and yellow, roughly 4 lbs worth I guess after I sat the 2/3 crate that was in the entry in the sink for washing up. That lot worked out at 3.2 kg diced and blanched and into the freezer. Leaves me with about 3.5 kg of red peppers, which will be turned into sweet chilli sauce.

[MissS]

Need to get lettuce and peas in as well, we grow peas mainly over winter here, fungal problems can occur in summer with them. Seems to me that you could do the same @GoDawgs .

Need to put out some spray, have recently read about a vinegar and Epsom salt recipe I intend to try to may have to get heavy handed on the Kikuyu though.

Please let us know how your vinegar and Epsom salt mixture works for you.

[Whwoz]

The ripe capsicum/pepper/chilli stocks were building up, so took care of the majority of them today - 4 kilograms went into a batch of sweet chilli sauce. Tastes good, just a hint of heat in it, which is great. 18 by 375 ml bottles net result

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[Whwoz]

Vinegar and Epsom salt, will cross post these comments in a separate thread, but basically the mixture of

2 cups Epsom salt
4.5 liters vinegar and
1/2 cup dishwashing detergent

Works as an effective weed killer. I would not say it is as good as claimed in some of the sites writing it up, but it will kill. I would say it acts more like a contact kill rather than systemic and as such is better used on non-running plants rather than cooch grass or Kikuyu where the rhizomes are not affected. Need to apply liberally to kill, light spray will just burn leaves it comes into contact with.

[GoDawgs]

Need to get lettuce and peas in as well, we grow peas mainly over winter here, fungal problems can occur in summer with them. Seems to me that you could do the same @GoDawgs.

I tried putting in some peas this past fall. Only a few even came up. That was around the end of August (NOT really fall) and I'm thinking the soil was way too hot so I'm going to try again this fall, planting later. September can still be really hot so maybe plant around the beginning of October. I'll have to get a feel for that when the time comes.

[Whwoz]

Garlic planting time here in the Garden of Woz. Cutting back on the number of varieties grown, but not on the number of different groups. Numbers represent the number of cloves planted. Anything that struggled last year has not been planted this season.

Subtropical Silverskin
Italian Red 12

Turban

Master Jack 24
Traf White Turban 24
Monaro Purple 30
White Crookneck 12

Porcelain

Music 16
Susan Delafield 18
French Ruski 24

Artichoke

French Messidrome 18
Dolovosky 12
Bulgaria 49 12

Purple Stripe Crosses

Mild 180-4 11

Standard Purple Stripe

Vietnamese Red 13

Marbled Purple Stripe

Marbled Blush 11
Dunganski 12

Glazed Purple Stripe

Pyong Vang 12

Creole

Mariposa de la Tierra 12
Rojo de Castro 12

Silverskin

Lokalen 6
Printanor 12
Wilde Silver 10

Still another 12 to 15 varieties to go in the form of a couple of Creoles, 4 or 5 Rocomboles, although we are borderline for them here, most did well enough for a first season last year, maybe another Purple stripe then there are 5 or 6 seed raised purple stripes that will go in. Then depending upon what is left over in the porcelain and Marbled stripe groups, I may do a randomized block planting to let them go and see if I can get some flowers and seed.

[Whwoz]

Zapotec Pleated Tomato

Supposed to be a Pink or Red, but what I got would be classified as either a light yellow or perhaps Ivory in color. Very nice to eat, Daughter not happy at limited amount of fruit to eat, she wanted more! Plant produced poorly even though it grew well enough. Need to give it a try in a season when I can get it in the ground earlier than what happened with the past season. This fruit weighed in at 4.85 oz or 135 grams

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[Whwoz]

Marconi Rosso,

Had these seeds for a year or two, not sure how they would do and after the previous season decided to plant about 4. In typical season would not need to plant that many again. Productive, did better than the red bells I have in, good size, still ripening more now and part of the reason behind the big batch of swwet chilli sauce. Will be covering to overwinter

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the light patches on the side are green vegetable bug damage