Another question might be asked why didn't I stop uploading or setting entries during the past week.. You know, because of what happened.. The entries for PNOP were set in May for through the end of this year, and while I might have been able to reset the entries up I just.. Wasn't thinking that I should do that.. And besides I didn't do very much entry wise here or the other two blogs during this time.. I wanted the blog that will be shut down in a year and three weeks to still be going.. For whatever the reasons. unK??
End of the season.. I always hate this time of year, not fall but rather the end of the growing season.. The grass slows to a crawl as far as growing and when I mowed last week I got a higher percentage of leaves than I got grass which means the compost effect in the tumbler is nearly nothing going on in there.. That should change this week with adding the garden waste to it and the pumpkin guts when my nephew tries to carve the pumpkins.. I say try because these are the giant variety.. Although we were at the pumpkin patch this weekend there were pumpkins easily bigger than mine but.. I grew mine.. Somehow they grow here, I have no idea how because once the seed is in the ground the hard work is done for me.. The Earth does the heavy lifting as far as getting them to grow.. And grow they did.. It's fun to watch them grow the way they do.. I moved the videos a little, suggestive moves as in why don't you grow this way AWAY from the busy ally.. Like trying to tell your kids don't play in the street.. They don't listen..
How was the tomato production?? Truth is you can never get 100% of the potential out of the plants, or I can't.. I would say I got around... maybe ... 80% from the Roma.. 60% of the Moby Grape.. A small percentage of the Caspian pink* (around 10% very disappointing) and in the Earth box the containers choice was likely 20% for whatever the reason.. The Krimson or crimson I think they spell it with a K. Could be the reason they failed, they don't know how to spell.. They were a tough variety to judge when they were ripe.. And they were odd mangled looking like they were in a fight or some odd shit.. Those were around 50% and they get that high of a number not because I got to eat that many more of them, but rather because something else got to eat them.. Those were placed in the tumbler.. I think we ate maybe ten of those altogether.. Then there was that lowly tomato under the kitchen window.. That one is an Early Girl variety and still hasn't been kissed (by frost that is) and it was so slow to start and yet it is still alive and.. Well growing anyway..
*the Caspian Pink variety from a few years ago.. Actually 8 or 9 years ago, my memory is it grew quite well, produced very large fruits and was very tasty.. This one was in a pot, seemed like it was doing quite well then the wind came in August and the storm that nailed dads memorial tree rained down several branches on this tomato plant breaking limbs on it.. That might be why it was in trouble and while it can be weather tolerant, it wasn't this year..
So cleaning the growing areas, the gas meter area will be cleaned out and set for next years growing season. Right now I'm thinking pumpkins there.. The ally planter might be... something.. Haven't decided yet.. The pumpkin planting area will be.. tomatoes again five years after the last time we grew them there.. And the last time we grew some there we got great tomatoes but we also got a cat in the deal.. Tomatoes give cats?? imagine that...
Badge Henry
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