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4 red bell peppers, 4 yellow bell peppers, Lemon Boy tomatoes, Pear shaped yellow grape tomatoes, radishes, carrots & spaghetti squash. Whew all in containers we'll see how they do at least I'll have some fun tending to them.
Finally coming to life. Such a short growing season here for these guys but I do end up picking some come October.
Good thing is: The house blocks the cold winter north winds
Bad thing is: Only gets like 4hrs of sun
May 16, 2017
Cambium, what are those things?
Northern Massachusetts here, has been very cold and wouldn't stop raining. Today was 70s so I transplanted my Black Cherry heirloom tomato seedlings into their own pots and found the huge containers I will eventually plant them in. I have a regular tomato plant too that will go into a container.
Tiny beets seem to have had their leaves cut in half when dh did the strimming in between rain storms. When I looked at them today most seem to have vanished. However a few are still there and never got thinned out(when I did the thinning in between rain storms.) Sometimes I have good luck re-planting the ones I thinned if I do it fast, water them immediately and it's late afternoon so they get a chance to rest from the sun. Makes me upset though because I put a little fence in front of them and cannot understand what the strimmer could have done to whack the leaves in half like that.
Anyway, I gathered up the dead grass from being strimmed and put it like straw around the strawberries that are starting to ripen. They're just in a hanging pot but I don't want them sitting on the soil to rot.
Planted nasturtium seeds out where there are vacant spaces in between flowers, also put geraniums outside for the first time this year. Got to keep everything watered--it's supposed to be over 90 on Thursday.
Hope they don't mind me answering generally - it's a fig tree. Would love to know variety!
Whoops, forgot to mention it. Thanks Eldemila. Yes, its a Fig tree. One of my favorite fruits. I'm not sure what variety. Bought it 10 yrs ago in a small pot. I guess once it grows more we can find out?
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Northern Massachusetts here, has been very cold and wouldn't stop raining.
Yup.. here too. Seemed like a never-ending winter and more importantly no Spring. March was snowy and cold. April was warm but first half of May was Top 10 coldest... Do you know we only had 4 full days of sun since April 18th?????
We haven't had a sunny day with max temps staying in the 60s much. It's either hot 70s or cold 50s.
And now... 80s next 3 days. lol Love the warmth finally though, just not the humidity it comes with.
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Tiny beets seem to have had their leaves cut in half ........ Makes me upset though because I put a little fence in front of them and cannot understand what the strimmer could have done to whack the leaves in half like that.
It's Rabbits. They LOVEEEE Beet leaves. Love them.
well I'm happy my black beauty squash has finally bloomed so hopefully I will have zuchinni soon . yes black beauty squash is zuchinni . I don't know how to spell it obviously LOL .my tomatoes are moving right along however black print is not doing so well maybe the heat I don't know we are getting temps here at 93and 94 .
Thanks for the answer: figs. I never would have guessed. Never saw a real fig. I think I live too far north to be able to grow them. Cambium, you are in a warmer part of CT--do you keep that plant outside in winter or bring it inside?
But no, my beet-lets weren't eaten by a rabbit. It was done somehow by a male human who was strimming the grass. I have a little fence alongside the beets anyway and I live in (improved by me) sand at the beach. Never saw a rabbit here.
Now I have to go out in this heat and water what's left of them. I did love the long, cool springtime though. Finally I had baskets of pansies and they lasted, lettuce too. Now it's too hot, too soon.
In Spring I am in the cooler side of CT. Inland gets hotter. In winter it gets too cold to keep anything outside unprotected here.
The Fig "tree" is in the ground. No bringing inside. If was in a pot, yes would have to.
Ground freezes and we get blasted with snow and cold where all plants must come inside.
People will cover fig trees with leaves, insulation, tarps, ect in hopes it makes it through a winter... Some actually bend it and bury them underground. I typically just cover the Fig tree and it survives..
They are so delicious! Wish growing season was longer just to have more of these!
We get freezes already in October & November.
Here is a time I had to protect my Lemon plant in October.
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Protecting the Lemon Plant with 4 big Lemons on there. This did very well through the freeze.
Finally coming to life. Such a short growing season here for these guys but I do end up picking some come October.
Good thing is: The house blocks the cold winter north winds
Bad thing is: Only gets like 4hrs of sun
May 16, 2017
love figs: we had a fig tree when I was a little girl in So. California.
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You make me sound so tropical. lol 
