Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

you always make us all so jealous and I can't imagine anyone who wouldn't want exactly your garden (with you as the gardener of course ;))

Thank you very much… that is a nice compliment.

I was just out for mushrooms.. our meadows are full of parasol mushrooms.. they are among my favorite mushrooms. Now I'm making a delicious mushroom stir-fry with them.

Are you already picking the green tomatoes because they won't ripen anyway or is there another reason?

I am picking my intact green tomatoes this weekend. The weather forecast is not good. In a box between newspaper they still ripen quite well. I have many with heat damage (green shoulders) or some are now bursting due to the moisture, I am leaving those hanging. Either something will still happen on the plant or it's just bad luck. In the box, they just go rotten. Chilies in pots are moving indoors, those in the bed I will mostly defoliate and protect at night with winter protection. They are still very green.

Are you already picking the green tomatoes because they won't ripen anyway or are there other reasons?

In this case, some tomato plants had spread by themselves next to the compost. I had cut them off because they were in the way by then, and "saved" the green tomatoes. Otherwise, I just leave green ones on. However, frost must not come, then they are ruined. I also tried ripening them afterwards once.. but I found that the taste really declined.