Quick fieldwork update

[unicornduke]

other than the pepper regrets

:| at these



Something knocked down and ate all my cornmeal corn. I'm grumpy about it. It looked good two weeks ago, just not quite dried down enough. Probably should have just harvested it then. Either raccoons or a bean. It was pretty thoroughly trampled and eaten. 

But everything else is going bananas. 

I got my tomatoes for seed saving, five or so different things, they are currently fermenting in their containers. I'll pour them off and clean on Monday. They get gross. 



All my cowpeas and things are really going now and some have dried down enough to harvest. Well. It was the mung and adzuki beans really. Tons of peppers are ready, except for like three varieties and that same fucking Feher Ozon pepper are juuuust barely orange. I'm very mad. 

I also grew a new tomato variety that just came in and they are fucking enormous. I got the variety from a seed swap and it was just labeled Jumbo Roma and. It's so big. 





I also just ran out and harvested sorghum, which is coolio. Somehow I think my early red sorghum crossed last year, which I'm really confused about given it was far away and earlier than the others but we'll see. 

Comments

[graydon]

That is a Serious Tomato!

Sorry about the bear; yay! harvest.

[unicornduke]

I'm like, yay harvesting things! But also so many things didn't turn out well. That's how it goes though. I'm making a bunch of big changes for next year, dropping some crops, cutting down the size of my field a lot, and some other things that should help with that kind of stuff

[tielan]

Holy cow that tomato is FREAKING HUGE! I am duly impressed!

And now, the important quetsions: does it taste good? WOuld you say it's better for eating raw or for cooking/making sauce?

I won't ask if I can get hold of some seeds, our biosecurity laws are tight for a reason, but...sometimes I envy the variety available in the rest of the world...

[unicornduke]

I only make sauces/pastes so all my tomato growing is geared to that and it appeared to be a meaty one when I cut it open for seeds. I'm pleased. It probably tastes decent raw but I don't particularly like raw tomatoes.

I got this from someone at a seed exchange in the states. I also think biosecurity laws are good but I've also just sent seeds in envelopes to various countries if they are small seeds. However, given the disease levels this year, I won't be exchanging any seed of tomatoes (and peppers but that's because they may have all crossed up). We've got hella late blight this year (Phytophthora infestans) which is the same blight that was responsible for the Irish potato famine. So it probably can't travel by seed, but I don't want to risk it.