#yellow cherry tomatoes

[onarangel]

Red and yellow cherry tomatoes spill out of a wicker basket...

[fitforestfairy]

Eating bits of the rainbow 🌈

Those were purple carrot sticks 🥕 and I'm absolutely in love 🤩

[soothedcerberus]

They're gonna make a caprese salad 🍅🌿

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Saturday 10 February 2024

It is the time of year to consider seed varieties to purchase for the coming growing season. Last year I saw this yellow cherry plum tomato Solanum lycopersicum ‘Bliss’. This cultivar produces heavy yielding plants with substantial crops of small yellow fruit.

Jill Raggett

[greenwitchcrafts]

Today's garden harvest turned out great!

[thebusylilbee]

im in my zucchini era. can't eat enough of that delicious shit

[themightyfoo]

Square Foot Gardening Update!

I harvested the onions and garlic yesterday - this is what I got from my raised bed in the hellstrip by the street. A 2x5 patch yielded 27 heads of hardneck 'Killarney Red' garlic and 20 'Yellow Rock' onions that I planted last October, along with 20 little 'Candy Apple' red onions that I planted in April for use as scallions. I'll replant those little red onions and two dozen of the largest garlic cloves in the Fall. Onions and garlic are dead simple to grow and make a good beginner crop.

Here's how the raised bed looked on May 3rd. The onions are in the left midground, the garlic in the right midground, the leeks and potatoes are visible in the background. I reserved the empty foreground patch for a pole bean planting I planned for late May. A few scallions spilled over into the bean patch because I intended to take them early, before the beans took over.

Here's how the pole beans looked as of this morning. I built a trellis between two beds to increase the bean growing area and make them orders of magnitude easier to pick. The bamboo I got from a patch growing in my Japanese-style back garden. The bare patch on the extreme lower left of the photo is where the onions and garlic were.

Here's my husband showing one day's bean and tomato harvest. This is what it's yielding every 3-5 days.

And just for giggles, here's my flower bed that's in the hellstrip behind the beans, sweet peppers and tomatoes. The gladiolus and cosmos are just starting to bloom; the bachelor buttons and nasturtiums have been blooming for quite a while now. (In the spring it's a riot of crocuses, daffodils, irises and hyacinths.)

If there's enough interest I can post how to build the watering grids. Building them yourself is far cheaper than buying pre-assembled ones online.

[askwhatsforlunch]

Blue Cheese and Tomato Spinach Salad (Vegetarian)

This colourful and delicious Blue Cheese and Tomato Spinach Salad, packs heaps of flavour and vitamins, and makes a simple yet tasty lunch. Happy Wednesday!

Ingredients (serves 2):

2 heaped teaspoons Aïoli 

1/4 teaspoon dried oregano

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 1/2 tablespoon Modena Balsamic Vinegar

3 heaped cups fresh baby spinach, thoroughly rinsed and spin-dried

a small Green Onion

3 large or 6 medium Cherry Tomatoes 

1/3 of a small yelllow Garden Bell Pepper

60 grams/2 ounces creamy Blue Cheese

In a small bowl, combine Aïoli, dried oregano, olive oil and Balsamic Vinegar. Stir energetically until smooth and well-blended. Set aside.

Put baby spinach in serving salad bowl.

Finely chop Green Onion; add to the bowl.

Halve Cherry Tomatoes or cut them into quarters depending on their size, and seed and thinly slice Garden Bell Pepper. Add to the bowl.

Crumble half of the Blue Cheese into salad bowl. Drizzle with reserved dressing sauce, and toss gently, to coat all the veges.

Serve Blue Cheese and Tomato Spinach Salad, chilled, with a glass of also-chilled Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc.

[cantankerouscatfish]

I have ordered! veggie and herb seeds! for the spring!!

for the greenhouses, as retail plants, not me specifically. but I do take some home for my own garden later. :3

[wildrungarden]

5/4/24 ~ transplanted cherry tomato update. They are all doing well! These are Atomic Grape, Golden Hour, Yellow Pear & Tiny Tim.

Y’all… I still have so many tomatoes left to transplant 😭😭😭😭😅 I do this every year. You’d think I’d learn. I’m just worried all the seeds won’t germinate 😅😆

[army-of-bee-assassins]

went to the farmer's market this morning. have purchased an absurd amount of fresh produce that i may or may not get through before it all goes bad.

[atlanticghostcrab]

[loesyff]

Some of my tomatoes for this year. Not all of them, a lot of them still on the plants, and I have been eating them as they grow. I’m sure some wizard could increase the yield of the plants a lot, but this has been like a good amount of fruit for me, not feeling like I need to donate them, but still enough to eat when I feel like. Only had to buy two times from the shop this year, before my own were producing.

[stepfordgoth]

September indeed

[inthecityofgoodabode]

November 2022: Rainy Monday

Sunday’s project was to yank out this knockout rose. This rose was at least 10 years old... sometimes gardening involves some hard & cruel decisions: 

We replaced it with this chaste tree that came up from seed: 

Today’s backyard garden. I was surprised to see a ripe tomato: 

I mentioned in a previous post about pulling some green seedlings from Plot 420 & bringing them home. These are them. The one in the middle had been seriously gnawed in by the local rabbits or rodents that run amok in the fields around Plot 420: 

Random brassica growing in the bird bath we turned into our sedum planter: 

With the rain today, the only bees out were honeybees. The native Bumbles, Carpenters & all the assorted tiny bees stick close to home when it rains even when it is just the on & off drizzle that we got today: 

One of two curly leaf parsley plants that we grew from seed. This one is the most gorgeous. Look how tight those leaves are curled. You can’t buy that flavor in a store: 

[greenpvnk]

Toh-may-toes™