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Scout wrote: "Do your tomatoes do well in the upside down containers, Pi? I tried it last year, and the tomatoes were so small! It seemed there wasn't enough room for the roots to grow, and they dried out so fas..."Mine love the upside down containers. They do need a LOT of watering. And I usually do smaller varietals upside down: sweet millions, sungold, Bush Early Girl. I think full sized ones would work fine too - the stems just grow stronger and thicker, in my experience, and then they do cool anti-gravity twists to get some extra sun.
Perhaps you could put the upside-down tomatoes on a drip watering system?
Good idea, Phil, but too much trouble for the couple of plants I grow. I think I'm going back to planting them in the raised bed this year.
Emily, this Website gives step-by-step instructions for making pickled green tomatoes. My mom made them several years ago, and they were delicious, but it's a lot of work. http://www.simplycanning.com/pickled-...
Scout wrote: "Emily, this Website gives step-by-step instructions for making pickled green tomatoes. My mom made them several years ago, and they were delicious, but it's a lot of work. http://www.simplycannin..."
Nice! Thankyou :)
Looks like the most intensive part will be sterilising the jars, which I'm quite used to. We have plum trees, so once a year I go mad making jam, chutney or pickle from those. At least the tomatoes don't need to be pipped!
Emily, it sounds so cool that you go mad making plum jam. My mom and I made blackberry jelly. Blackberry jam would be too seedy. We also made faux strawberry jam using figs. Ever done that?
I actually have a fig tree too, but I've not done much with them except for eating them fresh. Fig jam is a good plan for next season.We've only been in this house three and a half years, and the first two I had my mum visit for a 'plum day'. We'd pick the plums, sterilise the jars and make chutneys, jam etc. Maybe I'll ask her to join me for a 'fig day' this year :)
My Mum has a huge kumquat tree in her back garden . Her friend made some jam from the fruit but I haven't tried it myself . I like the fruit it's nice and tangy and the skin is consumed as well .
Love kumquat's, they work well in pots too.
I tend to get a bit possessive in the mornings ;)
I bought a Zygocactus today with an orange flower. I like to have autumn /winter flowering plants . 
evie, we call those Christmas cactus--is yours as pretty as the one in the picture?
BunWat wrote: "Kumquats. No apostrophe."Manners, Bun.
Here's a native asclepius plant that's blooming in the pot by my driveway. Butterflies and bees love it.
Jammies wrote: "evie, we call those Christmas cactus--is yours as pretty as the one in the picture?"It's smaller but the flowers are the same. I am putting it in a hanging basket that will hang outside my lounge room window.
Scout wrote: "Here's a native asclepius plant that's blooming in the pot by my driveway. Butterflies and bees love it."
That's lovely Scout.
Pretty good camera to capture the bee in such perfect suspension.
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Beautiful, Z-in-the-T. I love japanese maples too.Question: what vine has heart-shaped leaves?
Hmm...I'll bet it's a morning glory. We sued to have some on that fence before other climbing things crowded them out. My backyard is a wild and wooly kingdom.
Vines LOVE my yard. I have mutant alien vines creeping everywhere. I'm trying to start my own friendly native vines to combat them, but it's slow going.
This native vine volunteers in my yard. It's pretty, but I have to keep an eye on it, or it'll take over.
Bun, your suggestion to use paper grocery bags instead of ground cloth in my garden is working. And it's free.The white caladium bulbs I planted are coming up and unfurling and making me smile.
Squirrels and doves are eating the sunflower seeds as fast as I can plant them.
BunWat wrote: "Sarah it may be bindweed. Bindweed is morning glory's more aggressive cousin and is a pretty common field weed in the Eastern US."Oh, could be!
Someone suggested pulling out the plants and hanging them upside down in a garage where it's warmer, but I'm sans garage. Maybe green tomato pickle...