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Posted by lazygardens Phoenix: Sunset Zone (My Page) on Tue, Nov 3, 09 at 8:33
| I just harvested the first Matt's Wild Cherry since mid-August when the vines stopped producing because it was too hot for too long ... an abnormal summer. It's covered with new fruit, and has spread another 3 feet. The ones I cut back to stubs have just started blooming.
The indeterminate Romas are full of dead leaves - the stubs and short stems where fruit was produced have died. The new stems are popping out all over.
An Indian cultivar, gift of a co-worker, has many green, 3- and 4-lobed fruits. Dunno what it will be when it grows up, because he killed his.
The store-bought Early Girls are setting fruit, too.
IF, and it's always iffy in Phoenix, we can go without a long, hard freeze while I'm away skiing, I might have tomatoes for Valentine's day. |
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92 degrees today. Just wish I had my tomatoes in more sun. I'm going to work on keeping my recently planted Early girl and Sweet 100 happy through the next couple of months (18" high, planted 2 weeks ago) and hope for February tomatoes. Putting my patio tomato wherever the sun shines and brought it inside last week when it got a little chilly.
I put cardboard boxes around my outdoor girls last week at night. They seemed fine. This week the nights have been warm.
Just gave my eggplant a haircut so that the last few Japanese eggplants can finish developing. Hopefully this warm week will allow it them to ripen. I chopped off as much green as I could to let the sun shine in.
What a strange fall!! |
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| It was 38 degrees at 7:15 when I took my kid to school. It was 95 at 2:15 when she walked home. A 57 degree swing in 7 hours, sheesh. It's 85 at about 4pm. I just may come out of this fall with a nice harvest. I have a Champion with over 20 tomatoes, a Red Beefsteak with more, Moskvich has about a dozen, as does three Better Boys, Pruden's Purple and Rose have a couple nice ones coming along, Eva Purple Ball is loaded with small ones, Husky Cherry Red is giving up a handful every two or three days, Japanese Black Trifele has about ten close to blushing, a mystery plant I thought was Cherokee Purple has a dozen interesting pointy plum tomatoes on it. They'll all freeze or be tasteless with my luck. The angle of the sun is making this difficult. Plants that were getting about 6-8 hours a day are getting 3-4. What's been nice is I barely water now. Almost unbelievably, all of these plants but the mystery plum were transplanted between April and May; they have never felt a drop of rain and there's none in sight. |
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96 degrees yesterday, 94 degrees right now. This is so weird! It's supposed to cool down to the 70s this weekend.
My lettuce, radish, bok choys are germinating like crazy outside!
Tomatoes look great, growing lots of leaves, should be having fresh maters by Feb if I take care of them. Eggplants are twice the size of yesterday!!
Just wish I didn't have everybody planted in shade. They only get about 3 hours of sun, max right now. |
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| I'm waiting for the lettuce and bok choy to sprout, but the Swiss chard and spinach seedlings I set out are going nuts. Isn't it marvelous :) |
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