Because of the cold front rolling in, I decided to pull all of the tomatoes on my last producing plant. This thing started pumping out little juice-popping 'maters around June and never stopped. Hundreds and hundreds of spheres of deliciousness....
So this is a year old jalapeno plant. Has been inside over winter. It’s currently in some coir mix. It’s just struggling along. At this point it’s just an experiment as all other seeds grew massively, gave hundreds of chilli’s and didn’t survive winter outside....
My newer tomato shoots are turning black and I’m urgently trying to figure out why. All the plant sites are unanimously convinced that it’s late blight, stem canker or a related fungal issue, but the plant simply doesn’t display symptoms for these diseases- there are no lesions or sores, only a gradual darkening on shoots...
[Image description: a split photo, with the top picture showing cloves/bulbs of Elephant, Vietnamese Purple, and Nootka Rose garlic varieties about to be planted in a raised bed mulched with straw, and the bottom picture showing a few green sprouts peeking up through the straw.]
[Image description: a seed starting tray, with plant labels at the back. Centered is a row of basil seedlings with a set of true leaves, and to the left is a row labeled parsley, with only one seedling that’s suspiciously basil-looking.]
They like to hide under the leaves but I usually catch a few on the top. Have been turning my mint into patchy grey leaves that eventually wither and fall off.
I decided I wanted to try loofah. In the face of my constant neglect that bordered on felonious, I present to you the loofah I found after I picked up the trellis the storm blew over. Huzzah!