Ok Bernie put all us BLOOMIES to shame!

I've got bacon and lettuce Bernie! Good gowing!

Bernie, Great looking tomatoes! One slice fills a whole sandwich. Are you saving the seeds from the brandywine? I'm curious to hear what Tom says the cucumber looking fruit is. It looks real good and healthy even in the heat.

Christine

Christine, the mystery fruit smells just like a cuke. It is from one of Tom's seeds at ECHO. Lost the code to my seed box is why I do not know what it is.
bernie

Hey Bernie,

I'm with you, I've lost most of my stuff when my bunkers flooded after five days of rain so I'll be 100% BWB's by the fall, got to control that soil moisture level to diminish PM/DM and water intoxication.

Picked my last 10lbs. of maters yesterday and pulled the plants :-( Still have the cherries but only the Sungold are flowering right now.

That sure looks like the Metki Painted Serpent (Armenian) cuke, but if not it's the Metki Dark Green Serpent cuke, one or the other.

Tom

Bernie, can you let us know how the cuke tastes?

tom, how large should I let the mystery get before harvest. I had both of those seeds and they and both of those plants in the BWB. Jo picked it yesterday at about 1 foot long.

Christine , we will eat it today and will post results.

They can get to be about 18" but are supposed to be picked earlier if you want them relatively seedless.

I said the tomato at the top of this thread probably weighed over 1 lb. How about 1 lb and 9 oz :>) got it to a scale this morning and gave it to a friend who had given me a bunch of lychee's.

love those BWB's, everyone should try at least one next fall! Tom doesn't do things in a small way, he is going to have 80 5 gal BWB's next fall.

bernie

Tom doesn't do things in a small way, he is going to have 80 5 gal BWB's next fall.

SLOWLY! We're moving to succession planting Bernie, so it should only be about 20 BWB's at a time, about every 6 weeks.... :-)

Tom, what do you plan to put in the 20 buckets? Mostly tomatoes? or what? My friend I gave the 1.5+ lb brandywine can not stop talking about how much better it is than the tomatoes they grew in a raised bed this year :>)
bernie

Christine, sorry to be so long in replying regarding taste of the unidentified plant. It looks like a big hairy cuke. Taste like a very good cucumber. My cukes off my pickling cuke plant have tended to be bitter.

Are you out there and well Tom?

bernie

Are you out there and well Tom?

Sorry buddy, GW Florida was down for two days, yesterday I went to a rain barrel workshop and today was the Tampa swap. In addition, I've been finishing my 30' cattle panel arbor to grow these long-vined things on....

Tom, what do you plan to put in the 20 buckets?

Tomatoes - 5 buckets
Pole beans - 5 buckets
Squash/zukes - 4 buckets
Cukes - 6 buckets

Tom

Tom, next ??, what mix are you going to use in your buckets. Boy, Ed's mix certainly seems superior with tomatoes to me. Will try my on horse compost next fall, am afraid the cow compost from HD may be loaded with antibiotics from feedlot cattle.

Bought 3 blueberry bushes off craig's list; brightwell, premier, powder blue. Figured to put them in 5 gal non-SWC with lots of pine fines to keep acidity up. If they do not set fruit from lack of cold, will give them to someone up north!

bernie

...what mix are you going to use in your buckets

For the first round I'm probably going to try the local topsoil companies potting mix, my only reservations are that I don't know where their topsoil comes from (what might be in it) and who knows what the horse poop has in it....

Bought 3 blueberry bushes off craig's list; brightwell, premier, powder blue. Figured to put them in 5 gal non-SWC with lots of pine fines to keep acidity up.

I'd put them in mini-nuggets of pine bark if you can find them, it'll drain better than the stuff we use for Al's mix.

Tom