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October 18, 2017 By lpilewski Leave a Comment

The Fruits of Autumn?

You wouldn’t think it, but October is tomato time here in the garden. We’ve got a garden full of beautiful heirloom tomatoes! This one is a ripe Lucid Gem.

A little background…. you may remember that the tomato plants that we got in April didn’t make it (here). Then, in June, we planted from seeds (here).  The Blue Cream Berries never did sprout, but the Lucid Gems, Hillbilly, and Berkeley Tie Dyes sure did!

Since it’s been a while, read on for all of the updates. Last month (late September), I pulled all of the eggplants, peppers (except pimento) and generally spruced up. Note to self: next year, find another pepper plant that produces like the Sunset but isn’t quite so hot. My friends at work were super happy when I brought in 48 (!) peppers that were ripening when I pulled the plant.

I think we probably saw over 100 peppers just from one plant. The only issue is that they were (to me) much hotter than the advertised Scoville units. They were meant to be about 1/3 of the heat of a jalepeno, but turned out much hotter.

Other lesson learned – pimento peppers are HEAVY! Some strong winds will knock them right off the plant, but they’re still delicious green.

So – the garden pre-cleanup looked like this:

I pulled all of the finished plants and prepared for autumn leafy greens (yum!)

Here’s the post with the new items planted:

How’ve they grown you might ask? Take a look! This is from this week!

Can’t wait for salads…..

Filed Under: Week by Week Tagged With: Berkeley Tie Die, heirloom tomato, Hillbilly, Lucid Gem, October garden, salad greens

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Welcome! Follow along with me as I try gardening for the first time! My grandfather and mother are both amazing gardeners who could grow anything. Grapefruit, oranges, lemons, tomatoes, peppers, avocados, flowers, figs, mangoes, papayas – nothing seemed to wither on the vine.

Then there is me.  I’ve never had success with plants, but that is going to change this summer!  The picture above is what I see in my mind. I’m hoping that my kitchen counter will look like this. (OK, not the mushrooms, but you get the idea).

I intend to detail the journey here on a weekly basis. We’ll have to wait to see how my garden grows. Hope you stick around!

In the Garden

  • Onions
  • Classic Eggplant
  • Habanada Pepper (false habanaro)
  • Aji Dolce Pepper (false habanaro)
  • Orange Bell Pepper
  • Fooled You Pepper (false jalapeno)
  • Sweet Sunset Peppers
  • Pretty ‘N Sweet Pepper
  • Hilbilly Tomato
  • Julep Mint
  • Italian Basil
  • Greek Oregano

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Education Program Coordinator at Greenville County Soil and Water Conservation District
Newbie Gardener in Taylors, SC

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