The Harvest

In our small garden here in Tagum City we have managed to raise a variety of vegetables to include TOMATOES..Yes Yes Yes Tomatoes!!!

In the past we have not had much luck with tomatoes. For some reason they would get to maturity , begin to flower and then wither and die. Sometimes the tomato plants would look fine when I went to bed and be dead in the morning. It was a frustrating experience which made this growing season's harvest all the more sweet.

 The Tomatoes that we planted this time are Diamante Max F1. we have at this point hundreds on 8 plants. On one of the smaller isolated plants I counted 65 on just on that plant alone. We have allowed them to ripen until dead ripe before harvesting.

Although they cannot compare with a Big Boy or a Beef Steak tomatoes I have no complaints about the Diamante Max F1 either.. They are smaller but allowed to ripen on the vine they are sweet and juicy..

In addition we have 5 varieties of peppers. My favorite peppers are heart peppers and Sword Chili..Although the sweet peppers here have the reputation for having in-eatable skin we have managed to find some with tender skin and through seed management have realized a good pepper with eatable skin..





Our egg Plants are doing just fine and string beans are doing well
but I think beans will just grow anywhere.








You will see 2 wild Chili plants that we are cultivating in the large brown pots in the front of the beds. These beds are 4 feet wide and 15 feet long. the seemed more than adequate when I built them but now we wish that we had double the space.





One of my wife's prize projects are her Ginger and Turmeric.. they are about 9 months old now and we harvested some root for the first time. we were both amazed with the richness of the color and the taste. We try to use Turmeric everyday.

Here are some misc pics from our garden and our harvest to date..Hope you all enjoyed and hope also that you will share some of your pictures and gardening stories.

Submitted by Gilman Jones

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