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My beefsteaks yield 2 tomatoes the rest are all green. Same with the neighbors - all green this year.
I've picked 4 from my 3 beefsteak plants so far. They were 18oz, 11oz, 5oz and 4oz. I'm about to pick 2-3 more this afternoon though.
Also got a 14oz tomato from my Mountain Merit plant, which is not supposed to be a beefsteak variety, but some of the fruits this year look rather large. Typically they should only be 8-10oz.
I have some pepper plants that are not turning out how the seed packet described them. They were supposed to be Stuffing Scotch Bonnet, which is heatless, but I just taste the first fruit, and it's very much not heatless. I haven't tried any super hots yet (ghosts, reapers, scorpions, moruga, etc) but I have tried a regular scotch bonnet, and this one was probably about on par with that. It's hotter than my next hottest pepper, called Targu Mures, which is supposed to be a little over 50,000 SHU.
Not sure if the two other plants I grew from the same batch of seeds are also gonna be hot like that.
This is the plant I tasted
The second plant - first fruits on it are getting ripe...
And the third plant.
In other news, got another nice little cluster of passionflowers blooming at the same spot on the vine.
Guatemalan Green Squash starting to set fruit. I was worried these got cross-pollinated with my butternut squash when I saved seeds last year because the fruits that started to grow on what I thought was the Green Squash vine was turning out like butternut, but it turns out I just got the vines mixed up and now the vine I thought was butternut is setting Green Squash, so they didn't get hybridized after all. I'm glad because I was starting to run low on the original seeds, which can be hard to source (my original source stopped carrying them, only one place seeds to sell them now). These typically set fruit a bit later than butternut, but often set fruit more heavily.
Guatemalan Green Squash starting to set fruit. I was worried these got cross-pollinated with my butternut squash when I saved seeds last year because the fruits that started to grow on what I thought was the Green Squash vine was turning out like butternut, but it turns out I just got the vines mixed up and now the vine I thought was butternut is setting Green Squash, so they didn't get hybridized after all. I'm glad because I was starting to run low on the original seeds, which can be hard to source (my original source stopped carrying them, only one place seeds to sell them now). These typically set fruit a bit later than butternut, but often set fruit more heavily.
Yeah, it does, but the colour is different, and it's also not as watery, and sweeter and richer tasting than butternut, with some spinach/chard "green" taste undertones.
After a few months of curing, the skin turns from green to beige. These photos were taken in February 2023.
Uncooked, the flesh is dark green.
And then turns almost black after baking.
Unlike butternuts, where the vines tend to die back after ripening the first set of fruits, these Guatemalan squashes just produce a second set of fruits in early fall and only die back with the first frost.
Picked a big vegetable marrow squash, over 5 lbs. It's a variety of summer squash, but it's meant to be eaten at a more mature stage compared to zucchini which is eaten when the fruit is immature.
More zucchini and 2 lbs of sungold cherry tomatoes.
Lots more still on the plant.
Eastern black swallowtail caterpillar on parsley going to seed.
9 varieties of peppers, 3 varieties of eggplants, 2 of tomatoes, plus cucumbers and green beans.
8.2 lbs (+3.4 lbs) of cherry tomatoes
5.9 lbs (+4.2 lbs) of slicer tomatoes 14.1 lbs (+7.6 lbs) tomatoes overall
4.2 lbs (+2.4 lbs) of red/orange peppers
3.5 lbs (+1.1 lbs ) of white peppers
5.5 lbs (+1.7 lbs) of green peppers 13.3 lbs (+5.3 lbs) peppers overall
9.9 lbs (+3.8 lbs) of zucchini
5.3 lbs (+5.3 lbs) of vegetable marrow
13.8 lbs (+8.4 lbs) of cucumbers
2.8 lbs (+1.4 lbs) of green beans
3.4 lbs (+0.1 lbs) of peas
12.6 lbs (+0.8 lbs) of raspberries
1.2 lbs of alpine strawberries
0.8 lbs (+0.2 lbs) of figs
+37.7 lbs in the past week.
Spring/early summer succession of peas is done. Late summer/fall succession of peas is just starting to flower.
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