365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Made A Sweet Million
Day 332: Rich are those whose gardens produce, and let me tell you, I have made a boodle this year! My Sweet Million cherry tomatoes are producing as many as I can reasonably consume. What made the difference after a long run of failures? I bought bigger plants instead of trying to economize. I brought them home with blossoms already forming, just the head-start they needed in my short-season garden.
With Oregon Spring, it's been a different story. It's a full-size tomato, and while it came on strongly at first, it's fallen back now, and has only a few green fruits which I doubt will mature before first frost. It did well for me last year, though. That said, my main use for tomatoes is as snack food, not as a condiment to go with burgers. I would far rather pick a handful of Sweet Millions to nibble on my way out to the mailbox than harvest an equal weight of a beefsteak variety to slice.
Labels:
gardening,
Sweet Million,
tomatoes
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