2025 Garden Thread

[begreen]

@begreen , congratulations on such a great squash, tomato, and pepper year. Good work! How many Sugar Rush Peach plants do you have planted to have yielded so many pounds of peppers? That's quite a haul.

2 plants. They get over 4 ft tall and are packed with peppers like I have not seen before.

That's some nice sweets. Even the ones that didn't produce well look beautiful.

 

[DuaeGuttae]

Thanks, @begreen. I have them curing on our sunporch now. They like high heat and humidity for that, so I'm trying to do what I can naturally before the weather cools off too much.


I am really impressed that only two pepper plants have given you so many peppers. I know you said that they grow large, but they must surely set a lot of fruit all over to accomplish that. Did you figure out a good way to support them?

 

[begreen]

I am really impressed that only two pepper plants have given you so many peppers. I know you said that they grow large, but they must surely set a lot of fruit all over to accomplish that. Did you figure out a good way to support them?

Yes, they need strong support but fortunately peppers are all air inside and don't weigh a lot like tomatoes or eggplants. I have one plant in a large tomato cage tied to a 4ft stake. The other plant is in a different plant support system buttressed on each side by other pepper plants, each about 18" apart.

 

[djlew]

Weather has been weird, meyer lemon has a couple blooms opening. I was expecting to be bringing it inside by this time. Foolish me. Apricot seed has started leafing. Really exciting stuff! Cool to see some progress still even as we get into fall. Cranberries also are rooting like strawberries so it looks like it is enjoying its new home.

 

[DuaeGuttae]

It's been a beautiful October around here with cooler temperatures and low humidity. Fall colors are beginning to show up, even in my garden where the red noodle beans are yellowing. I need to do another harvest of dry beans for them.

It's been harvest time recently around here. My mom helped me to dig the rest of the sweet potatoes last week. Because of cooler temperatures on our sun porch, I pulled out my seedling heat mats to help the curing process. I was able to get some addition sandwich trays from our church after we had a lunch together, and those have been working well to keep the environment humid for the sweets. If the skins are toughened up sufficiently by now, I'll move them to our basement for storage.



I picked the last of the green tomatoes and have them on our counter to ripen up. I also brought in peppers to ripen inside since we were expecting temperatures in the thirties this week. I also trimmed a fish pepper plant and dug it up to overwinter in a pot on my sunporch. It's sitting alongside the ginger that also moved inside and a planter of maglia rosa tomatoes that I started later in the summer so that I could isolate them for seed saving.


Still left outside are a key lime and satsuma mandarin orange. We had five oranges that made it through the hailstorm in the spring. We've eaten one, and I think the others are due for picking. I'll plan to move those plants inside when temperatures are consistently closer to freezing.