Scrapes and burns on Cherokee Purple.
Closer look.
This is the first time I see a Cherokee Purple flower.
So many petals (is this normal?)
Scrapes and burns on Green Zebra.
Odoriko is doing well.
San Remo and Pompeii are thriving.
Shishito pepper is flowering.
Last week's wind and hail storm caused some damages to my crops, I lost 6 jalapenos, 4 sweet potato slips, and 4 strawberry plants. All the tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants were under cover, there were some abrasion damage to Cherokee Purple and Green Zebra caused by the wind slamming at the floating cover. Yesterday's gusty wind claimed 3 cucumbers, I would have lost the squashes and melons also had I planted them out couple days ago when it was nice and sunny.
My spring planting is three weeks behind schedule, we keep getting cold snaps and gusty winds every 3-4 days, I'm lucky to get all the seedlings planted by the end of the month. Sowed some beans two days ago -- Rolande filet (bush beans) and Kwintus Italian flat pod (pole beans), I grew them last year and we like the texture and taste, these green beans freezes well also.
My spring planting is three weeks behind schedule, we keep getting cold snaps and gusty winds every 3-4 days, I'm lucky to get all the seedlings planted by the end of the month. Sowed some beans two days ago -- Rolande filet (bush beans) and Kwintus Italian flat pod (pole beans), I grew them last year and we like the texture and taste, these green beans freezes well also.
6 comments:
Your weird Cherokee Purple flower is totally normal. It is a megabloom which happens often for the first flowers of beefsteaks. You will get normal flowers later. Don't save seed from these blooms as they tend to cross pollinate (their style sticks out farther than with the other flowers).
So sorry about your wind storm. We have been very windy too (we often are in the spring), but our winds have only been in the 20s and 30s and the row cover has been doing its protective job. Though I did have to go out one day in the middle of the winds and fix it so it was tighter. I hope your plants recover for you.
It is so sad to see these tomatoes battered. You do have some strong winds there. I hope weather stabilizes very soon.
My tomatoes are still not showing any flowers.
You're the third person I've read who has experienced these mega blossoms this year. They must be very common. Strange I've never heard of them before.
I hope your tomatoes recoup soon!
Daphne,
Thanks for the megabloom explanation, I learn something new everyday.
Spring is the windiest in our neck of the woods, 30s-40s is the norm, it can go up to 50s-70 at times, when that happens it's like a train wreck.
vrlarica,
The winds will be more gentle from June onward, but the sun will be hot hot hot, this is desert living, from one extreme to the other.
Hope your tomatoes flowers soon once the weather warms up. We gardeners are always excited about the first blooms.
Thomas,
I didn't know about the megabloom until Daphne explains it, tis is the first time I saw one, now we know. I'll tag the fruit and see if it taste different from its siblings or not.
We had been very cold pass two weeks!
All my green house plants(tom,egg plants,melons,chills) are hardly grow any bigger>"<
Still only 4"-6" tall,
I'm not sure will I get any harvest this year!
Shar,
I hope your weather will warm up soon so that your toms, peppers, eggplants etc play catchup and set fruits for you.
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