In Saskatchewan, growing anything other than root vegetables past mid-August is generally a gamble. This year my fellow Saskies know that last night, Labour Day 2020, most of the province dipped WELL below 0. In Saskatoon, we sustained -6 for a couple hours. This is NOT normal at all – extremely early for such cold …
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How to Save Tomato Seeds
It seems it may have been too windy for frost last night, and I’m crossing my fingers that it didn’t quite get all the way down to 2, because the wind blew a lot of the blankets off my plants in the night. They look okay, so hoping all is well and that the nightly …
Time to Cover
Tonight in Saskatoon the forecast is for 2 overnight with a risk of frost. The weather today is rather unpleasant (60km winds and a high of 15, no patches of blue in sight), I just had to throw out one of my ripe Celebrities because it had a pretty disgusting case of blossom end rot, …
Tomato Cousin Jam
In my sunberry post, I mentioned that these prolific yet relatively unknown tomato cousins taste kind of like a salty red wine. In my ground cherry post, I mentioned that these prolific and slightly more well-known tomato cousins taste kind of like an unknown tropical fruit. In today’s post, we find out what happens when …
BT Sandwich
While we all know my tomatoes are not ripening as fast as I’d like, the recent pruning and plastic covering seems to be helping. I finally got to eat my first ripe Celebrity the other day, with a second on the way soon! What honour did I bestow on this precious beauty? The conditions were …
Other Stuff I Grew
I’m guessing that most people reading this blog who have gardens, like me planted more than tomatoes this year. I’ve lamented more than enough about how I’ve had a fairly bad year for tomatoes starting from germination issues to mislabeled greenhouse seedlings to extremely late maturity, but I’ve had other plants that did really well …
The Brick Trick
aka, something else to try because it’s so late and your tomatoes are still green A while ago I saw a tip on Twitter that I wish I’d done earlier, but better late than never. It said to put a large-ish rock near each of your tomato plants to absorb heat all day, which would …
End of Summer Hail Mary
Yesterday I pulled out three more tomato plants that had not set any fruit – both Pineapple plants (I guess I know why I didn’t remember how this seed worked out in the past) and the Big Zak, which was still a very little Zak. Everything else at least has… something, even if it’s just …
My Best
I pulled out the tiny stick tomato plant the other night. I don’t know what went wrong with it, but it remained a tiny stick, flowered a couple times, though never set fruit. Another disappointment related to this was that I thought the stick was a Juliet plant, but the other seedling that came from …
Easy Tomato Cousins to Grow: Tomatillos
If you enjoy growing tomatoes, but want to grow something even easier and more relentless, tomatoes have a few cousins you might enjoy growing! I’m growing their two more “fruity” cousins this year (sunberries and ground cherries) and have tried a tomatillo in the past but made a very stupid mistake with it. This is …
