Thursday, July 3, 2014

Black and Blue, What to do.

I still haven't found my camera, and I'm too cheap to buy a new one till I'm sure it's gone for good. But anyway, Happy July.

I've been tending my garden, haphazardly, but finally got the last tire planter planted with it's trellis. My hope of having them all crawling with morning glories has fizzled out along with the dying sprouts, but I haven't given up. I've soaked and planted a few more of the remaining MG seeds and tucked them into various planters to play catch up .

So I've already been harvesting round cherry tomatoes, and a few peas before they went to seed. Now the rest of the tomatoes are catching up and setting fruit, and I have no idea what to look for. I have planted out some volunteer yellow grape, a couple of green grape, a plain stocky cherry tomato, and a couple of roma and some My mother gave me I have no idea what they are. They are probably slicing tomatoes since that is what she likes.I'm woefully low on orange tomatoes as none of those seed took. 

Also, I have out there Great Whites, Black Seaman, and Indigo Rose. I've plucked a few split tomatoes that were cherry size and kinda brown and assumed they were indigo rose, since they are kinda rose colored, but I also have some tomatoes with super dark purple shoulders, as dark as blueberries, and assumed those were Black Seaman ( I labelled them but though maybe I made a mistake since I think Black is darker than indigo. Turns out Indigo Rose is the Dark purple one, and Black Seaman is only slightly dusky brown. The picture on Amazon is a lie ( it showed a very dark skinned brown tomato with gradations inside the fruit.  Below are what my fruit looks like.

This is the Indigo Rose, image is from Blackgold.bz


Below is what my other fruit looks like, this is Black Seaman, Image is from HeirloomSeeds.com
And this is what the Amazon.com image said it would look like...Not even reality.
But it's still tasty and It's still fun to grow them. 

It seems that the indigo Rose will have some of the same vitamins as the blueberries I love to eat. So Yay! 

As far as the sweet potatoes, unfortuanatly, mine took a long time to take off, and I've planted other things in their place, and now I have a bunch of runners and no broken ground suitable for them. The upper part of my walkway is too dry, and lower moister part is already planted out with other veggies. I guess I'll have to pot them up and see if they'll run. Happy Independence Day, Tomorrow!


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