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#752
#752
LittleVol said:
Does anyone her have an Australian Bottlebrush tree?
How do the do with other plants?
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There are bunches of them around my other house in SWFL. I see them growing in vacant lots that are "jungle" and they seem to do just fine but not as many blooms as one that's in a yard where it has room to breathe. Beautiful when in full bloom but sorta' messy to clean up when the blooms start falling off!
 
#762
#762
IMG_2769.jpegI'm trying to grow some beauty berry bushes and this one is wilting. The others I have planned are doing good. All were planted the same day and in the same soil but this one isn't growing. I have voles I'm trying to get rid of. Do you think the voles could have eaten the taproot? Need help to get it back
 
#763
#763
The black cherry tomatoes which I planted for the first time this year are the first of my mater plants to produce ripe fruit. Delicious!
 
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#764
#764
Tin Man said:
The black cherry tomatoes which I planted for the first time this year are the first of my mater plants to produce ripe fruit. Delicious!
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Ae those red and black and a little smaller than a golf ball?
My wife ate those every day last year, but the place I bought them last year, and all my other plants this year didn't have them last month.
 
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#765
Go aeiou said:
Ae those red and black and a little smaller than a golf ball?
My wife ate those every day last year, but the place I bought them last year, and all my other plants this year didn't have them last month.
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Small blackish red with a greenish hue at the stem. The plant is very productive. There are many clusters of green tomatoes on it at ~3’ tall. I’m beginning to suspect it will become a large, long vine.
 
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#768
#768
Two of my big, beautiful Cherokee purple tomatoes have been pulled off the vines and chewed just as they were ripening! 😡

I have no idea what’s doing the deed. I’ve picked the others which are starting to ripen and am hoping that they’ll finish ripening inside.
 
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#769
Tin Man said:
Two of my big, beautiful Cherokee purple tomatoes have been pulled off the vines and chewed just as they were ripening! 😡

I have no idea what’s doing the deed. I’ve picked the others which are starting to ripen and am hoping that they’ll finish ripening inside.
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Squirrels
 
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#771
#771
Tin Man said:
Please, no…
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Yep, I'm betting squirrels.

We used to live in a log house (what a saga...) on a vertical lot and gardened in barrels on the deck. In the summer, we'd find individual tomatoes lined up on the deck railing, each with one bite taken.

Squirrels.
 
#773
#773
JustFunnN'Orange said:
Thank You to my fellow VN Gardners. I just had my first Cherokee Purple tomato from my garden last night. What a wonderful and tasty treat! And I would have missed it if not for several of you talking about them!

Thanks again VN!!
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I'm jealous! *goes out to glare at the Cherokee Defiantly Bright Green again*
 
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