Urge for Growing

So we are trying to keep some of our tomatoes alive in our hoop house, but if that doesn’t work we have a backup plan.  We took some cuttings of two of our heirloom tomato plants (one grape, and another mid-sized tomato), and we are going to keep them in the house and replant them in the spring.  

 

We are also growing some tomatoes we got down in Texas that were purple with green stripes.  They look so cool I thought I would save the seeds and try to grow them ourselves. 

So far so good all the seeds I planted sprouted and are looking pretty good so far, we will keep these guys inside for the winter as well.  Also, while we were in Dallas our friend Andy juiced a bunch of fruits and vegetables for us.  One of the fruits was a pineapple, and he gave the top so that we could try and grow our own at our house (he is currently growing 2). 

 

I know ours looks pretty sad right now but I’m told that it’s growing roots so some of the leaves might die off.  Hopefully it will perk up once it gets some roots going, and in a year or two we might get to have a pineapple that we grew ourselves (which would be pretty cool).  We will keep you updated on our different wintering techniques, and how they are working for us.

Autumn Harvest

We set up our hoop house the other day, but left all the plants inside of it until this weekend, when we planned to go through and cut them back and see what we could find in there.  Well we found quite a lot of stuff, a bunch of green tomatoes, Serrano peppers, bell peppers, Anaheim peppers, and Thai hot peppers, and outside of the hoop house we found a couple good sized eggplants, leeks, and some more cucumbers.  Here is a picture of everything we picked in the last couple days.

You can see all the green tomatoes that we gathered from our tomato jungle on the left, in the middle are cucumbers that are covered by the leeks, front right are a ton of Serrano and Thai hot peppers, and in the back right are our eggplants.  Also in this picture are our pineapple, aloe, and some tomato sprouts.