Congrats on the baby! All the varieties of tomatoes I grew last year and the year before completely succumbed to blight. Last season, I bought us 2-3 weeks for the fruits to ripen by spraying with hydrogen peroxide every other day and trimming dead leaves. It was a lot of work and the moment I stopped spraying, they died quickly. This year, plan to be more proactive
Good to know! I might try that. I am also planning on being more proactive this year and maybe trying a hybrid variety of tomato with blight resistance. Maybe then I could see if they cross pollinate with the Peron Sprayless heirloom variety I grow and I could create my own resistant type!
What do you do with luffa and bird house gourds? Remarkably my tomatoes don't have blight yet but they're not ripening very well, so much growth though. I've been making fried green tomatoes, yum. I started Celebrity. So many good size fruit, just need them to ripen. My cucumber yellowed and dried up too but they were constantly picked. Lots and still more! I think it's more a blight problem. I have some later planted cucumbers that haven't had fruit yet and those leaves are doing the same thing. Love your fenced in garden. Although I have downsized mine over 52 years by at least half, it would still take a lot of fencing. Your flowers are pretty. I have some of the same in mine. I planted nasturtium in with my winter squash, supposedly keeps bugs away and it seems to be working and so nice to see them amongst the vines. Becoming a book. Take care and God bless.
I use the dried luffas to clean fruit and veggies or scrub dishes. I've made a few birdhouses out of the birdhouse gourds. This year I'd like to make some scoops by cutting some dried ones in half lengthwise. I've just started to get some red tomatoes. I've frozen one bag and am still hoping to can some of the plum tomatoes soon. VERY disappointed in the Silver Fir tomatoes. My cucumbers were also not very happy this year, but I still got a big enough crop off them for sweet pickles and fresh eating. I'll have to try planting nasturtium!
@@Escapetothe8thConcession I hope you will do a video on luffas. Sounds like a good end product. Do birds nest in the gourds? They would make a good Thanksgiving decoration. I haven't made pickles for years now, dill or sweet. I have more luck with slicing cucumbers, probably because they grow up rather than out on the ground. Next year I have them go up too. They all get the cucumber blight as I call it though. Perhaps the nasturtium help or it could be that the chickens spent alot of time digging in my garden last fall and spring. I'm sure they ate alot of bugs. I haven't had chickens for 40 years. I should probably credit them but the flowers are beautiful peaking out. Do you put your chickens into your fenced garden? It would be perfect. Another good reason for a fence. Beautiful sunny day and warming again thank goodness.
It will be touch and go here, too. Right now they're pretty green. I hope we have a warm fall so they can dry. I want to make some gourd scoops from them. :)
Thank you! Christmas will be so much fun this year. Our raised beds run east/west, so the cattle panels span them with one side facing south, the other north. Happily, this hasn't seemed to affect which side grows better.
Congratulations to you all ❤ with the new Baby ❤ FATHER GOD IS AWESOME ❤😊
Oh thank you. Babies are such miracles.
Congrats on the baby! All the varieties of tomatoes I grew last year and the year before completely succumbed to blight. Last season, I bought us 2-3 weeks for the fruits to ripen by spraying with hydrogen peroxide every other day and trimming dead leaves. It was a lot of work and the moment I stopped spraying, they died quickly.
This year, plan to be more proactive
Good to know! I might try that. I am also planning on being more proactive this year and maybe trying a hybrid variety of tomato with blight resistance. Maybe then I could see if they cross pollinate with the Peron Sprayless heirloom variety I grow and I could create my own resistant type!
What an awesome garden Tour ❤
Thanks so much!
What do you do with luffa and bird house gourds? Remarkably my tomatoes don't have blight yet but they're not ripening very well, so much growth though. I've been making fried green tomatoes, yum. I started Celebrity. So many good size fruit, just need them to ripen. My cucumber yellowed and dried up too but they were constantly picked. Lots and still more! I think it's more a blight problem. I have some later planted cucumbers that haven't had fruit yet and those leaves are doing the same thing. Love your fenced in garden. Although I have downsized mine over 52 years by at least half, it would still take a lot of fencing. Your flowers are pretty. I have some of the same in mine. I planted nasturtium in with my winter squash, supposedly keeps bugs away and it seems to be working and so nice to see them amongst the vines. Becoming a book. Take care and God bless.
I use the dried luffas to clean fruit and veggies or scrub dishes. I've made a few birdhouses out of the birdhouse gourds. This year I'd like to make some scoops by cutting some dried ones in half lengthwise. I've just started to get some red tomatoes. I've frozen one bag and am still hoping to can some of the plum tomatoes soon. VERY disappointed in the Silver Fir tomatoes. My cucumbers were also not very happy this year, but I still got a big enough crop off them for sweet pickles and fresh eating. I'll have to try planting nasturtium!
@@Escapetothe8thConcession
I hope you will do a video on luffas. Sounds like a good end product. Do birds nest in the gourds? They would make a good Thanksgiving decoration. I haven't made pickles for years now, dill or sweet. I have more luck with slicing cucumbers, probably because they grow up rather than out on the ground. Next year I have them go up too. They all get the cucumber blight as I call it though. Perhaps the nasturtium help or it could be that the chickens spent alot of time digging in my garden last fall and spring. I'm sure they ate alot of bugs. I haven't had chickens for 40 years. I should probably credit them but the flowers are beautiful peaking out. Do you put your chickens into your fenced garden? It would be perfect. Another good reason for a fence.
Beautiful sunny day and warming again thank goodness.
❤omg! Your birdhouse gourd looks amazing.mine not sure if it will make it before the first frost.the fruit still very small
It will be touch and go here, too. Right now they're pretty green. I hope we have a warm fall so they can dry. I want to make some gourd scoops from them. :)
@@Escapetothe8thConcession did u start it from seeds inside or direct sow them?
Congratulations on the new grand baby! A quick question...what orientation are your cattle panels? E-W or N-S?
Thank you! Christmas will be so much fun this year. Our raised beds run east/west, so the cattle panels span them with one side facing south, the other north. Happily, this hasn't seemed to affect which side grows better.