I've harvested Anemone sylvestris, Delphinium tricorne, Virginia Bluebells (Sharon, if you're reading this I owe you!) and Celandine Poppy, missed the Puschkinia and Scilla siberica as usual. My Columbines are doing about the same as Bakemom's and so far the Alliums have been a bust - I moved them last fall so I guess they need to recuperate. I WS'ed Silene orientalis last year and it has bloomed - quite nice! But the seedheads don't look all that appealing and it's right beside my Lavender which is just starting to bloom now. I don't want to deadhead, so I guess that one will get moved in the fall! All in all I suppose it's about the same as usual - too many seeds and too little time to trade them all away. Too bad you won't be doing the nooB packs this year, I have a bunch of stuff that needs homes. Let me know if you find a willing vic, er, replacement to send out seeds. :)

Sylvia, I have taken your suggestion to heart and started a little journal. That's an excellent idea, and it will help me a lot next season to keep these lessons in mind. This is only my second season with any type of garden at all, and my first where I've had any real planning or thought go into it, and I'm learning a lot - thanks to this forum, in particular. Mrs. TLC, I don't think I can restart my peas - the area that they were in is now heavily shaded by the four foot high bean plants that tower over them. I think that's what did the peas in the first time - I had no idea that beans flew out of the ground so fast. Next year, the peas go on the sun side of the beans! So now, I've seeded that area with some lettuce - we gobble down enough salad that we can always do with some more, and they might do better than the peas with the partial shade. Alan

Hi Silvia, so glad you found your way back :-) My mouth always gets watery and could devour most all of your posted pics! Looks like you captured the Sun's Gold for a real Sweet Treat in a celestial blue pleated plate! ;-) I'll have to raid my Santas so the grape can make it's last stand for a respectable picture to keep up with you for the moment ;-). The only nice thing about this cold here is that if the tomatoes are kept above freezing, they can last so long on the plants ... they don't have top be picked every day as long as they are protected from birds and squirrels (!!!) I bet your transplants are quite big by now, and that's a nice cherry tomato trick to have some munching maters to fill in the gap. I'd like to do that but everything is tied up and intertwined, and since I'm also working with seedlings each day. I'm afraid to clean up little by little with the mold spores that will go flying in my hair and clothes if I try to separate the plants. Suddenly I'm hungry! Cheer! PC

Thanks Sey. It's my first year growing CP. Very impressed by its size, earliness, productivety, disease resistance, and taste. Its productivity is comparable to big beef. I grow 5 CP plants and have picked around 10 fruits/per CP plant since July: the smallest is one half pound and the largest one is in the picture. Notice that I put its taste last -- my "other" tomatoes all have great taste because I don't water and fertilize after the plants went into the holes. But CP has thin skin and soft meat and more watery than other types. I have been thinking, sey, that cutting back fertilizer and water may help you get early ripe fruits.