by angela@diggingbliss | May 19, 2006 | Uncategorized
(Raising fist to sky) Just when my tomato plants are looking fantastic after a good feeding and some warm weather, I start hearing words like “thunderstorms” and “temperatures dropping.”
Was it because I was dissing coastal tomato growers? I guess I had it coming…
by angela@diggingbliss | May 17, 2006 | Uncategorized
It’s the heat, ‘Stupice’ by Lynette Evans, S.F. Chronicle.
“Wah, wah… we live in the sophistimicated urban wonderland that is the Bay Area, yet our home-grown tomatoes taste like paste wrapped in cardboard… wah, wah.”
You can’t have it all, ya big babies.
Just give up and go down to the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market and buy a sizzlingly delicious Valley-grown tomato.
You’ll also want to get this book.
by angela@diggingbliss | May 15, 2006 | Uncategorized
by angela@diggingbliss | May 15, 2006 | Uncategorized
I’d first purchased this as a cut flower, then ordered it from Easy to Grow Bulbs so I could try it in a pot. I really love the cantaloupe orange color and lantern-like flowers. So dainty!
Sandersonia aurantiaca
Common names:
Chinese Lantern Lily,
Christmas Bells
Genus: Sandersonia (san-der-SON-ee-uh)
Species: aurantiaca (aw-ran-ti-AYE-kuh)
by angela@diggingbliss | May 15, 2006 | Uncategorized
Of the nine tomato varieties I planted this spring, ‘Lemon Boy’ was slain in a brutal snail attack and yesterday, ‘Copia’ lost half its limbs when a trellis I was moving fell on it like a guillotine. Doh! I hope it recovers.
Who knew the life of a tomato could be so treacherous?
Dead: ‘Lemon Boy’
Wounded: ‘Copia’
Doing fine: ‘Black’, ‘Black from Tula’, ‘Costoluto Genovese’, ‘Sungold’, ‘Sun Sugar’, ‘Celebrity’, ‘Early Girl’