Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 79 Entries. Thursday, March 14 View Page Notes for 2024 Gardening Season. This is an ongoing experiment. Home made fertilizer. The minerals below are calculated on a 100g sample. Calcium 3.2 g - Copper 3.69 mg - Iron 23.67 mg - Magnesium 855 mg - Manganese 25.65 mg - Phosphorus 819 mg - Potassium 15.377 g - Selenium 81 mcg - Sodium 81 mg - Zinc 6.03 mg Will test different mixes. Will see what works best.   Thursday, March 14 View Page Setting up cattle panels for the upcoming season. May need a few more   Friday, March 15 View Page Garlics are about 4 inch tall. Weather has been very warm for this time of the year but we are not out of the woods yet. Heavy frost forecasted for tonight. Need to cover those babies. Welcome to Wisconsin   Saturday, March 16 View Page Space is limited so we need to grow things vertically. Preparing two beds for climbing beans and lettuce. The idea is to create a small tunnel covered with sun shade tarp   Saturday, March 16 View Page In progress. T-poles are in - Cattle panels are up. Need a few truck loads of wood chips.   Monday, March 18 View Page Making a list of tomato to plant in 2024. 1) Big Wixon - 2) Big Zac - 3) Brutus - 4) BruZac - 5) Catapano - 6) Church - 7) Delicious - 8) DelMar - 9) Domingo - 10) Domingo x Lebanese 11) Gigante Farina - 12) Hoy - 13) MegaDom - 14) MegaMarv - 15) MegaZac - 16) Portuguese Giant - 17) Slammer - 18) Slankard - 19) Tumatica Giganta - 20) ZacZilla   Thursday, March 28 View Page This is the updated and completed list of the varieties I planted. Some are new for me and may have huge potentials. Andrea's Giant - Big Malaka - Big Wixon - BigZac - Brutus - Bruzac - Catapano - Church - Delicious - DelMar - Domingo - Domingo x Lebanese - Gigante Farina - Hoy - MegaDom - Megamarv - MegaMutt D - MegaMutt Z - MegaZac - Uncrackable Cherry - Piennolo del Vesuvio - Portuguese Giant - Rudy - Slammer - Slankard - Tumatica Gigante - Vincent Sicilian Monster - Zaczilla   Thursday, March 28 View Page Playing with the big boys   Saturday, April 13 View Page Tomatoes about 3 weeks old   Thursday, April 25 View Page About 30 giant varieties getting outside to harden off.   Saturday, April 27 View Page Home Made Fertilizer New Formula. Applied to Eggplants and Peppers.   Saturday, April 27 View Page Peppers grown with home made fertilizer   Saturday, April 27 View Page Eggplants grown with home made fertilizer   Tuesday, May 7 View Page On May 6th the first batch of tomato was finally planted in the garden. Zaczilla and Big Malaka looking the happiest. Zaczilla - 3.84, Vincent Sicilian Monster - ??, Big Malaka - ??, Brutus - 5.39, Delicious - 4.72, Slankard - 3.0, Catapano - 3.86, Tumatica Gigante - 1.54, Megamarv - 4.52, Domingo - 6.23   Tuesday, May 7 View Page Domingo tags ready to be mounted on cattle panels. Thanks Dan, Jack, Rick and Chris for the seeds.   Thursday, May 9 View Page Most of the tomatoes are in the ground. Expecting heavy rain.   Thursday, May 9 View Page The following tomatoes were planted on 5/8/24. Still have about a few more varieties to plant. Domingo 10.46 Domingo 8.48 Megazac Megadom Slammer Megamutt D Megamutt Z DelMar Domingo x Lebanon Delicious GG Church Hoy Catapano TD Portoguese Giant Domingo 7.44 Andrea's Giant Gigante Farina   Friday, May 10 View Page Big tomatoes will be grown here. lol   Friday, May 10 View Page Season 2024 is about to start.   Friday, May 10 View Page New sign for my garden   Sunday, May 12 View Page That's how you stack milk jugs   Sunday, May 12 View Page What's a shed without a mailbox where you can put away hand tools? lol   Tuesday, May 21 View Page Jesus is my Lord!   Tuesday, May 21 View Page Tomatomania lol   Saturday, May 25 View Page Some of the plants are starting to form flowers. My First multibloom is on Zaczilla.   Saturday, May 25 View Page In the mean time my garlics are growing huge.   Saturday, June 1 View Page Nice Megabloom on MegaMutt Z. THis is a cross between MedaDom and MegaZac. Seed from Chris K.   Monday, June 3 View Page Megabloom on DelMar. This is a cross between Delicious and MegaMarv created by Dr. Meisner.   Tuesday, June 4 View Page Megabloom on MegaZac. This is a great tomato. A cross between MegaMarv and BigZac created by Chris Konieczny   Wednesday, June 5 View Page Megabloom on Delicious - Hunt Strain.   Wednesday, June 5 View Page Megabloom on MegaDom. Cross between MegaMarv and Domingo - Another great tomato developed by Chris Konieczny   Wednesday, June 5 View Page Need to remember the name of these peas. Green Beauty. Very strong climber.   Friday, June 7 View Page Keeping track of tomato growth   Friday, June 7 View Page hopefully they will pollinate   Monday, June 10 View Page After reading and watching several youtube videos I have decided to make my own tomato crosses. My first cross - MegaMarv x Big Malaka --->(Mega Malaka)   Monday, June 10 View Page My Second cross Tumatica x Delicious (Hunt Strain)   Thursday, June 13 View Page MegaMutt - Z   Thursday, June 13 View Page Domingo Lebanese   Thursday, June 13 View Page Domingo - DS 8.46   Thursday, June 13 View Page Zaczilla DAP3   Thursday, June 13 View Page MegaDom 8.35   Thursday, June 13 View Page MegaZac 6.13   Thursday, June 13 View Page Delicious Hunt Strain   Thursday, June 13 View Page Slankard C.K. 3.0   Tuesday, June 18 View Page Huge Megabloom on JLR 10.46. Hopefully it will pollinate.   Wednesday, June 19 View Page Another nice bloom on Rick J. 7.28   Thursday, July 11 View Page A cluster of 12 tomatoes. Never seen anything like this before. Each tomato being over a pound and growing.   Saturday, July 20 View Page Andrea the Giant. Variety from Canada. First year planting it.   Saturday, July 20 View Page Big Malaka. New Entry in my garden. This tomato is grown for competition in some of the Australia communities.   Saturday, July 20 View Page Catapano 2024   Saturday, July 20 View Page Delicious Hunt Strain   Saturday, July 20 View Page DelMar - Dr. Meisner Cross between a Delicious Hunt Strain and MegaMarv.   Saturday, July 20 View Page Domingo x Libanaise   Saturday, July 20 View Page MegaMarv 2024   Saturday, July 20 View Page MegaMutt D approaching 3lbs (photo is a week old)   Saturday, July 20 View Page In the mean time harvested 350 garlics. Five different varieties   Saturday, July 20 View Page New entry in my garden. Delicata Squash   Sunday, July 28 View Page MegaMutt - D   Sunday, July 28 View Page MegaMutt D   Tuesday, August 6 View Page DelMar 2024   Tuesday, August 6 View Page DelMar   Saturday, August 10 View Page MegaMarv   Saturday, August 10 View Page MegaMarv   Saturday, August 10 View Page MegaMarv   Saturday, August 10 View Page MegaMarv   Monday, August 12 View Page MegaMarv   Monday, August 12 View Page MegaZac   Monday, August 12 View Page MegaZac   Friday, August 16 View Page MegaMarv   Friday, August 16 View Page MegaMarv   Friday, August 16 View Page MegaMarv   Friday, August 30 View Page Domingo x Lebanon 2:12.8 (2.80 lbs) 1270 Grams   Friday, August 30 View Page Domingo x Lebanon 2:12.7 (2.80 lbs) 1270 Grams   Friday, August 30 View Page Andre' the Giant 3:0.4 (3.03 lbs) 1372 grams   Friday, August 30 View Page Andre' the Giant 3:0.4 (3.03 lbs) 1372 grams   Friday, August 30 View Page Domingo from CK 6.23 - 2:4.1 (2.26 lbs) 1023 Grams   Friday, August 30 View Page Domingo from CK 6.23 - 2:4.1 (2.26 lbs) 1023 Grams   Saturday, August 31 View Page Domingo x Lebanon 2:13.8 (2.86 lb) - 1298 Grams   Saturday, August 31 View Page MegaMarv 2:9.3 - (2.58 lbs) - 1170.8 grams