Gone Feral In Idaho

Sad flower, hanging head in shame:) I've become a terrible garden blogger.  With is being September and all, I am really busy with my other blog about the Halloween yard display or rather haunt.  Things in the gardens are doing fine.  The sunflowers have produced some massive seed heads, although I will probably not grow the Burpee Super Snacks because they had a big problem with toppling over (that may be my fault).  The mammoth variety seemed to be stronger although the heads drooped. We harvested a bazillion tomatoes this weekend, one massive zucchini, some peppers, crooknecks, and a couple a cukes.  The zucchini ended up getting gutted of seeds and made as a sort of meatloaf holder.  We had a bunch of game meat from K's folks that he is trying to power through.  I must say it was quite tasty.  Sadie had a taste test for herself the last time he made massive zucchini loaf boats, actually she devoured most of one that he...

This is blossom end rot.  I've only noticed it on one plant, the Super San Marzano hybrid paste tomato.  Of the gardens I am familiar with ours was the most amended, we had new composed manure with gypsum as our base, the topsoil of the raised beds worked in with some substrate sand, Canadian peat moss, and vermiculite.  I also have given all our veggies a hit of Zamzows Thrive.  Our plants are massive, even compared to the ones we gave away as seedlings to other gardens.  For some reason though, the Super San Marzanos weren't happy with all that.  I then dressed around the plant with a top fertilizer with 4% calcium in hopes to correct the problem.  So far so good, so it isn't necessarily a big fail, but we are definitely in the dark as to why this guy got so fussy.  After I took this shot I pulled all the end rot tomatoes and disposed of them.  There were about ten in all.  So far we've harvested about 20 and there ...

I'm not sure what to think about Brussels sprouts.  This is our second year trying them and we aren't getting the little cabbage sprouts, just open leaves.  It seems to be a lot of effort for little to no yield.   The generic cantaloupe plant we picked up from Zamzows on sale is doing really well on the fence trellis.  I am very happy with this picture BTW. This Burpee Sugar Girl Hybrid Chantarais-type melon is doing nicely in it's knee-high stocking sling.  All the melons will get these so they don't get too heavy for the vines.  The Burpee plant is smaller and has less melons though.   The Burpee Zavory mild habeñero is doing really well.  The two in the raised tomato beds got crowded out and are only producing a few pepper, but the one in the neighboring raised cold frame bed is going nuts!  The plant is huge and is covered in peppers.  I can't wait 'till they ripen and turn orange.  They look just like regular habeñero...

Let's see, we have cherry, roma, Super San Marzano, and beefsteak tomatoes, cucumbers, a giant zucchini, a sweet bell pepper, and a Giant Marconi pepper, two crooknecks, and a strawberry.   I heart Kyle. I used these guts that were ripening on the sill with others and spent three hours making tomato sauce for eggplant parmesan that we'll prepare later.  With these guys below: I'll post some pics of the dish when it's done and we've reviewed it.  With us luck!