This is the Punta Banda tomato plants grown from seeds given my by my friend Phil who owns Good Mind Seeds (http://goodmindseeds.org/) . The plants are happy, flowering, and setting a lot of fruits. I am really looking forward to seeing how they taste. Phil speaks highly of them.
At this point in my summer, I have to admit, I am not sure what beans these are. Each tower is a different kind of soup bean, and I have a lot of different soup beans I am growing. When I harvest them, I will be able to tell what kind each is again, but I kept lousy (fairly non-existent) records of just what beans are where in my gardens. These are on 20 foot long rebar, which I bent into large U shapes with a conduit bender, then with two of them pushed into the ground I tied trellises into them with twine for the vines to climb.
This is the Mandan C. Pepo squash. They have fairly taken over the northeast corner of the garden behind the house.
Shown here are the C. Mochata grown from the seeds from the large fruited specimen I got from my bushy plants last year. The one set fruit I have found is a long necked one, so the large standard butternut shape is not going to be all I get from these. <grin> I dont mind. They all taste the same.
The Arikara/Knife river landrace is vining vigorously over the garlic bed I have not dug up yet. I really have to get all of those harvested before I cannot find them under the squash vines, or would damage the vines digging the garlic out.
Rumi Banjan tomatoes are setting fruit happily, and they are still my tallest plants. None ripe on them, but a lot of fruit which has me smiling. Looking forward to eating these. They have been Patti’s favorites two years in a row.
These are the Coldset tomatoes which I got from Glenn Drowns. The earliest set tomatoes are just starting to turn and we will be harvesting a good amount of these in a week or so.
Galina is a nice, sweet Siberian yellow cherry. As an indeterminate I look forward to eating these all summer. Have happily popped a few dozen into my mouth the last couple of days.
The Siberian tomatoes are ripening, but with the damage they took from the heat it would not surprise me if the small first flush of fruit is all I get. Who knows though? Last year I thought the plants were dead, but did not pull them, then they set up new branches in August and we were eating tons of them in October. We will have to see.
Here, in the center of the plant, is the first of the Tug Hill paprika peppers set by the plants grown from the seed given me by Kathy Colton. I am glad the plants have made it and I am going to get fruits from them. The paprika sample she sent me was fantastic, so will be fun to make my own this year that is not a burning hot chili and I can put in food my kids wont cry when eating.
You don’t say where you live, and that can make a BIG difference in how much sscecus you would have growing in a greenhouse in winter. I live in Minnesota, where of course it gets really cold and days are short. I worked in a hydroponic greenhouse here, and we grew only greens, lettuces, kale, etc..in the winter. Spring through fall we grew tomatoes, basil, peppers and other greens, but they just won’t grow in the winter, there isn’t enough light. It also costs a lot of money to heat a greenhouse in winter, so do your homework before you make a decision. I should say that you can add supplemental lighting to a greenhouse in winter, but again it is very expensive.
I heard from some people livnig in Michigan that they have grown palm trees there and bring them inside in the winter, I don’t think you can grow citrus trees there, they won’t die but I don’t think you can get fruit, (not enough sun) Your previous person said that all tropical plants need high humidity, not so, think of Palm springs or Las Vegas (very dry)
Have a friend here with an orange tree. It fruits, but the things seem to take a year to ripen. Brings it inside in the winter. Has it in a huge pot.