“Inland southern California, zone 9b. Typically get the seeds started in late December, early January, and the bulk of my harvest is in June, before the heat of summer stops the flower set. By then, I’m usually battling spider mites, which combined with the heat stress inevitably kills off my plants.”
“Oh yes, I’m sure you could process them, it just wasn’t worth the effort for me.
Last year I kinda went insane with the number of tomato plants I grew, if you look at the /c/tomatoes community header, it’s a picture of my kitchen counter completely covered with tomatoes. At peak harvest, I was pulling out at least 100lbs of tomatoes a week. When you’ve got a dozen 2lb tomatoes to eat/process, dealing with micro ones becomes less appealing.”
Yeah, I posted about a couple a volunteers I’ve got in my backyard that don’t look quite like any variety I’ve grown before. I’ve given them no love or water, but they’re just happily charging along.
You know I thought about deleting my account, but with a combination of nostalgia and the hope that some of my comments would still be useful led me to decide to just leave it in stasis.
So far, pretty much everything I’ve posted on Lemmy has been new OC, but I think I’ll start scraping and reposting some of my old reddit posts eventually.
I used to comment a lot more than I would post back on Reddit, but I’ve been putting in an effort to try to build up communities here, both my own and others. So I’ve been scraping all my old pictures to find useful content, and as a result, have more posts than comments.
As much as I’m biased towards pretty pictures, posts about life in the desert are also welcome.
I’ve got relatives in Phoenix, and I was alarmed to learn that checking your shoes for scorpions before putting them on is standard procedure for them!
I’ve tried my hand at pho before, a ton of ingredients and 12 hours later I got just an okay result. Makes me appreciate the joint down the road that sells a bowl for $11.