NFR 2024 Garden and Growing Things thread
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The crape myrtle and jasmine are doing pretty good in year 2
Kmudgn -
A beautiful Brandywine!
This year I have grown three slicing tomatoes, brandywine, momotaro, and carmello. As the crop comes on have been sharing the bounty with my neighbors asking for a taste their preference between the three. While we prefer the brandywines the results so far have been a split between the brandywine and momotaros with the carmello a distant third.
The carmellos have been easiest to grow with the most fruit, at least twice of the other two. It also had theearliest maturity fruit with a more acidic character. So far, the largert fruit has come from the brandywine which in my opinion makes the best BLTs. A favorite summer diner is BLTS and fresh corn on the cob with both the tomato and corn picked from the garden just minutes prior to making this feast!
Looking forward to growing these 3 tomatoes again for further sdie by side comparisons.
A beautiful Brandywine!
This year I have grown three slicing tomatoes, brandywine, momotaro, and carmello. As the crop comes on have been sharing the bounty with my neighbors asking for a taste their preference between the three. While we prefer the brandywines the results so far have been a split between the brandywine and momotaros with the carmello a distant third.
The carmellos have been easiest to grow with the most fruit, at least twice of the other two. It also had theearliest maturity fruit with a more acidic character. So far, the largert fruit has come from the brandywine which in my opinion makes the best BLTs. A favorite summer diner is BLTS and fresh corn on the cob with both the tomato and corn picked from the garden just minutes prior to making this feast!
Looking forward to growing these 3 tomatoes again for further sdie by side comparisons.
I have grown German Giants and Mortgage Lifter as "big" tomatoes. I keep coming back to the Brandywine as I find the taste more "tomatoey". I have never heard of Momotaro, but will look into that and maybe give it a try next year. Where I live in NH (Zone 4/5) we have a short season so I have to pick the right varieties for the growing season.
Capt Insano Emeritis
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Momotaro is my most recent tomato and it is early and reliable. Not a great tomato year for me as i had a pepper focus. I have 50 or so tomato varieties and almost all I have been growing for a 30 years. Seedsaver I am. I am growing great Red(ussr1991) marvel stripe(Oaxaca) giant golden dixie. Costoluto Genovese, Caspian Pink, japanese Black trefele, candle Flame( my cross)gregories Altai,Ananas Noire, Cuostralee, and a few others I can not recall from here on the sofa with my coffee.
Capt Insano Emeritis
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I recommend Caspian Pink
2 summers ago we picked up an Asian pear tree on clearance. It was described as "self pollinating, but produces much better yields with a partner tree". We only had space for a single tree so we went for it. Last year, it struggled with fire light. This year it grew much better and resulted in only 3 fruits reaching maturity, but boy are they delicious. I picked them this morning and sliced one up to have with our raspberries, cucumber, eggs, and bacon breakfast.
If I had to choose one pepper to grow, it'd be hard to not pick jalapeño. Tough to beat their versatility and all around awesomeness.
They’re so good. And it seems they bred the hotness out of the mass market ones. WTH
Eating jalapeños is such a game of roulette
never know if they're doing to be like a bell pepper with a kick, or a "honey get me some ice cream. NOW!" I've seen such a wide range of heat levels that it's quite a fun game.
It used to be that way with the ones from the store but I swear they’re all pretty mild now. I usually don’t de-seed or pith them because otherwise there’s like NO heat.Eating jalapeños is such a game of roulette
This is very true. I’m on the hunt for a “real” jalapeño variety that packs as much heat as the ones you get at taco trucks.
Highly variable pepper, even on the same plant...when using heirloom type pepper strains. Xalapa origin strains are some of the best.
Real xalapas have an amazing flavour - something that has been mostly lost in all the watered down variations in commercial agriculture. I know the Numex Chili Institute has been digging up the old cultivars again to address the lack of flavour in the modern stuff - any of their products with Heritage in the name are the result of this.
Jalapeno's have changed...
www.dmagazine.com
Real xalapas have an amazing flavour - something that has been mostly lost in all the watered down variations in commercial agriculture. I know the Numex Chili Institute has been digging up the old cultivars again to address the lack of flavour in the modern stuff - any of their products with Heritage in the name are the result of this.
Jalapeno's have changed...
Here’s Why Jalapeño Peppers Are Less Spicy Than Ever
Throw out those bogus shopping tips about pepper size. Decades of deliberate planning created a less-hot jalapeño.
www.dmagazine.com
Capt Insano Emeritis
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Doing some sofa shelling of Taylor Horticultural pole beans. And next to it a Yamata japanese cuke and misc purple pole beans and yellow Marvel of Venice pole beans. I pick the pole beans daily. We have decided to eat them almost daily. I still have canned quarts of beans and pickled beans from previous years and I have non gardener neighbors to foist them on which them accept willingly
Thanks for sharing. This article explains a lot of the reasons I like to grow my own vegetables. The variety and quality found in most grocery stores is lacking at best. Fruits and veggies that are bred for long term shipping, storing and handling, not for flavor. The heirloom tomatoes sold at grocery stores are really no different. Picked green and gassed in warehouses until shipped to the end location.Highly variable pepper, even on the same plant...when using heirloom type pepper strains. Xalapa origin strains are some of the best.
Real xalapas have an amazing flavour - something that has been mostly lost in all the watered down variations in commercial agriculture. I know the Numex Chili Institute has been digging up the old cultivars again to address the lack of flavour in the modern stuff - any of their products with Heritage in the name are the result of this.
Jalapeno's have changed...
Here’s Why Jalapeño Peppers Are Less Spicy Than Ever
Throw out those bogus shopping tips about pepper size. Decades of deliberate planning created a less-hot jalapeño.
In Arkansas they just call them purple hull peas, and there great.
Capt Insano Emeritis
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Violet podded stringless that I first bought from Territorial Seed Company in Lorane Oregon in 1982- an heirloom favorite been saving seed from for all those decades.
Just go with Serrano if you want more of a sure thing. Great substitute.
Capt Insano Emeritis
Legend
Get a box shipped to you. I used to shop at Winco and occasionally do if I want 15-20 lbs of jalapeños.