Okay I finally finished my piece for the editor. I deserve to give myself a treat.
I think I'm going to order more seeds.
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I really want those orange hat tomatoes.
I absolutely don't need them. I just want them. Attached, a tray full of tomato seedlings of a wide array of varieties.
An excessive array of varieties, frankly.
Also, here's another example of how I recycle things when I'm gardening. Lettuce boxes are nice and high and make decent cloches.
Ohhhhhh nooooo.
How have I never heard of these before?
I absolutely need these seeds, even though I've already bought my tomatoes for the year.
I was watching a video on tomato varieties, somebody needs to take the internet away from me at moments like this, and I discovered a variety that may as well just have my name written all over it.
Should've just named them Gisela You Must Grow These.
https://www.rainbowseeds.ca/store/p786/orange_hat_tomato_seeds.html
Screenshot from here:
https://youtu.be/pbmTDxprHaM
I'll have to try the fan thing when I finally get mine going.
I have so many seeds to start and not enough hours in a damned day these past couple of week.
I'm not gonna complain about having too much paid work, but the URGENT ITEMS list is making it a challenging to get to the IMPORTANT ITEMS list.
I could use fewer things running around on fire right now.
I've got some interesting experiments to do wrt starts, and some really cool tomatoes I want to try this year, and I'd really like to get them started. I keep telling myself that, "maybe I could take an hour and start with the seedlings," but this ABSOLUTELY not a one hour task.
*sigh*
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Things that seem fine despite the frost last night:
Swiss chard, peas, carrots.
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Playing d&d (remotely* as we have since Covid started) and thinking about going outside to pick the last of the tomatoes and eggplants from the polytunnel since it dropped below freezing at some point last night.
Green tomato relish or mincemeat?
Probably the latter since I picked up apples on sale a couple of days ago.
I guess I should also take advantage of the day off to dehydrate the apples and basil that is still alive. Or maybe pesto for freezing.
Hmm.
Decisions.
Going to run and take pics and probably grab the tomatoes before my turn comes back around.
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Okay, I went to take photos and discovered very little had survived in the tunnel, except one small eggplant, that, now that I think about it, I should have grabbed to bring inside with the peppers.
So I picked what was worth grabbing.
(I really need a basket with a handle. I think it all the time, especially when putting stuff in sad bags for collecting.)
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* one of the benefits of playing remotely is I can simultaneously do a bunch of low-attention tasks like cleaning and editing simple videos, like the one I am going to drop later on Why People Need To Counter Caryma Sa'd's Many, Many Lies. I still hope we'll be able to get back to gaming in person at some point. I've been playing with this particular set of people almost as long remotely as we did in person.
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Because I didn't have enough tomatoes to deal with ALREADY, I just went and bought two bushels of San Marzano tomatoes.
The first picture shows the ones I bought, all other photos are things I grew.
I guess I'm not sleeping tonight.
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Using the waning daylight to harvest and can.
Normally I only can roma tomatoes, but this year I've just gotta do everything because I don't have the time to deal with the amount of produce incoming.
There are only a couple of tomatoes in the photos because I have yet to actually get a little basket and pull everything that is ripe today.
I also have to get on top of the beans.
I need a clone.
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Oh. Duh.
I guess that's why there's a seed bank in the โ๐พ"anarchist office"โ๐พ.
It's not just to tempt me mercilessly every time I have to come by.
I was starting to feel like someone needed to put NO GIGI ALLOWED on every drawer.
Today is my only day off from what has become my job even though I don't actually get paid for it, despite rumours to the contrary.
I mean I'm still doing client work, but I guess I'm semi-retired.
Today I intend to garden as hard as I need in order to restore balance to my brain before dealing with the unwieldy pile of client stuff I've ignored for the last several days.
Nature doesn't give a flying fuck what else you have going on in your life. The tomatoes are going to ripen, the garlic needs to be planted, and the skunks are apparently going to eat my strawberries if I don't.
I have to figure out how I'm going to get on top of the canning for the year, or all this produce is going to go to waste.
Oh yeah, I really wanted to finish up my mini-encyclopedia of the varieties I grow, which I probably haven't added to in at least a month. Gah.
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I have blanched and frozen so much zucchini already. And still it grows.
Why can't I have this many eggplants?
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