Oh What Alien Life Form Isth Thouest

While on my second phase of house painting , Aluminum siding phase. I came across
this what didn't reveal itself until I zoomed in closely only to reveal an egg cluster.

Still trying to do an internet search on this alien phenomenon.



Army Cutworm Eggs, and so it goes.

Today's Harvest Is Today's Shared Harvest

Today's first meal is from my potted vegetable garden and is shared with
a neighbor who needs a meal even more so and to be remembered in
contrast to the fact that here memory is failing her.

What's Good For The Tomatato

Is good for the Eggplant in regards to taking cuttings. This technique
will be via water as apposed to cuttings directly to soil.

These cuttings have been in water for nearly a month and while sitting
on my kitchen windowsill while one
of them is showing some roots developing.

This photo was taken a week and a half ago with no roots.

The deep purple coloring in the stems of these cuttings are just hint
of the deep purple colorings that these fruits can render.

Today's Reward

While cutting the tomatoes from the vine and looking for any browning leaves
that can be trimmed form the tomato or eggplant. A ripe and nearly foot long
Japanese eggplant reveals itself to me. First admired for it's beauty and mystery
and soon to enjoy the taste that only an eggplant can bring to the table.
I still haven't studied it's rhythm of fruit bearing process. Perhaps I will keep
this mystery a little longer and enjoy the surprise of today's reward.

Third Generation Tomato?

Nearly a month ago I took more cuttings of my tomato plant with hopes
of getting a jump on some tomato plants before the really hot Florida
temperatures bare down on this humble vegetable patch.

I was too generous with watering the cuttings that were placed directly
in some composted material only to to witness their sudden demise due
to too moist conditions setting up for a typical case of rot.

Perhaps second time, now a week into a second set of cuttings. There
are plenty of cuttings were these came from and hoping it's not to late
to start a new. This time these cuttings get one to two misting of water
from a spray bottle a day. Like I said it's been a week and it may not
look like it but they are looking a lot better than they did a few days
a go. We had some rains the last couple of days which brought some
cooler temperature which I think helped. Being under a carport helped
in controlling the amount of water the soil would have received had
they not and would have been back to square one.

Time will tell once again as is always the case.

Nature's Bounty

From this second generation of tomato cuttings that were takin the
first week of January due to a threat of frost that never happened.
Produced a large cherry tomato that is consistent to whats on the
market for this greenhouse grown variety.

 
Chose to pick these weeks before they are red ripened, knowing that the
majority will ripen fine as they do in the industry. I don't have a greenhouse
to protect these from the hazards of the garden variety. With the idea that
this will encourage more tomatoes to fruit and develop. At least that's the
idea.

Now You See 'Em

Native blueberries kind of sparse
this year for reasons unknown,
which only makes these three
berries taste all that much better.

Now you don't. Yum!

It's not often I beat the birds
to these little gems.