Eudicots

Purple De Milpa tomatillo Offsite articles: • Cuttings; Growing Your Own Salsa Verde (The New York Times, 1993) • The Plant Lady (blog post; grow report) Vendors: • Annie's Annuals & Perennials • desertcart (has reviews) • The Home Depot • Honeyman Farms • HRSeeds • Mor...read more

Cisineros tomatillo Offsite articles: • Dave's Garden Vendors: • 123seeds.com • Southern Exposure Seed Exchange • Tomato Growers Supply Company Offsite forum search results: • Google: Dave's Garden • Google: Gardenweb • Google: proboards.com • Google: Tomatoville ***...read more

Everona Large Green tomatillo Offsite articles: • Dave's Garden • Smart Gardener Vendors: • Seed Savers Exchange • Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Offsite forum search results: • Google: Dave's Garden • Google: Gardenweb • Google: Tomatoville ***** I tried growing t...read more

We've got a thriving, but heavily budding, oregano plant outside. I decided to make some herbal tea with some of it, to see what it was like. It was surprisingly good, even with all the buds! If you enjoy mint tea, you'll probably like this, too. The herbal tea had a pleasant floral smell as I d...read more

Here's a picture of some of our Sempervivum. It may be Sempervivum tectorum, but I'm not certain:

I read somewhere that the third degree of ramifications on cucumbers (I think that was the species of cucurbit) was more prolific than lower degrees. I kind of wonder if going out more degrees of ramifications increases production for all cucurbits, given a long enough season. With tomatoes, ...read more

I'm pretty sure this is western salsify (it has yellow flowers that look like that), and I know that's a bunching onion with it (possibly Crimson Forest). This picture was taken on 18 June 2020. welsh_onion

https://www.hhmi.org/news/tomatos-hidden-mutations-revealed-in-study-of-100-varieties The above article explains a discovery. They now know how to use genetic engineering to change tomato traits, such as fruit size. They figure it'll work for other plants, too, such as ground cherries. How...read more

So, I had the idea to make ketchup leather. I looked it up and found this article, which gives the even better idea of eating it on hamburgers (I was just thinking about eating it plain): https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/ketchup-leather/ Anyway, it's fruit leather made out of ketchup....read more

Here's a volunteer hollyhock from a few days ago or so. It's nice and green, this year.

Here are our grape vines, this year. There isn't much variegated grape leafhopper damage. There were lots of leafhoppers, but they disappeared, and came back, and I think they might be gone again.

Here's a grape cutting that survived and apparently rooted! We've had some cool and wet weather that probably helped it out.

I was eating some burritos, today (baked frozen chimichangas), and decided to wrap the last one in some chilacayote leaves from the garden, as I had done first recently. I first put a stack of leaves in the toaster oven on bake for a few minutes (to make them softer). Then I wrapped the burrito ...read more

Sun Sugar F1 tomato Offsite articles: • Bonnie Plants • Dave's Garden • Tatiana's TOMATObase • Wikipedia Offsite forum search results: • Google: Dave's Garden • Google: freeforums.net • Google: Gardenweb • Google: proboards.com • Google: Tomatoville ***** f1_hybrid...read more

SunGold F1 tomato These super popular 1", 1–2oz, cherry tomatoes are supposed to be quite sweet, tart, prolific, and even early. Some say it splits easily. Note that SunOrange F1 is supposed to be similar, except with larger fruit, less prone to splitting. SunGold F1 is often compared w...read more

Here are some pictures of our elderberries, from one angle:

Here's a picture of our beebalm, this year. It's at least a few years old. I'm not sure which species it is, but it gets red flowers.

These pictures were all taken on 8 June 2020.

Here are our Sugar Pod snow peas, today. I ate several first, and they were delicious. Note that each picture has different plants in it.

Here are some of our yarrow plants, today. Here's one from April 25th:

I think it's some kind of Euphorbia similar to Euphorbia serpens, Euphorbia prostata and Euphorbia maculata, but is seems to grow flatter with smaller, rounder leaves than those (maybe you can't tell its flat tendancy now, with the rain we've had). It's one of the most drought-tolerant p...read more

Here's our oregano plant, today. It was planted last spring, I believe. That's awesome that it's a perennial. It was a purchased plant, last year, probably from The Home Depot.

I've had a grapefruit tree for 24 to 29 years. I planted it as a seed. I planted several others, which sprouted, but they got something like mealybugs and all of them died, except this one (which became free from the pest after a while). We use my tree as a houseplant. It's never been outside...read more

I'm growing some tomatillos in a container. However, in one of the containers (not with the biggest of the tomatillo plants that I'm growing), it's chalk full of purslane! I don't know how it got there in such large numbers, but it did. Purslane is edible and I like the idea of having it in a...read more

Brandywine tomato Offsite articles: • Dave's Garden • Tatiana's TOMATObase • WebGrower.com • Wikipedia Offsite forum search results: • Google: boards.net • Google: Dave's Garden • Google: freeforums.net • Google: Gardenweb • Google: proboards.com • Google: Tomatoville ...read more