I know this is late but maybe it's something to consider this year. You can pickle green beans like you can cucumbers. Many veggies pickle well. So another way to use up green beans when you're tired of eating them the "regular" way. lol
hey, your " Topatoes " are poisonous, you can't eat them! and it is normal, that is potato seed and it happens on regular basis, so it isn't cross polination, that's what potato seed looks like. so if you plant that seed, it'll take two years to produce a potato.
INTERESTING!!! I'd never had them form before. And the strange thing is, no other gardener that I showed them to knew what they were either! I just thought we had mutant garden plants. LOL Thanks for enlightening me. : )
I've never seen that before either, but I'm pretty sure its just the potato plant going to seed. If you'd be so inclined to let those ripen, I'd love to plant that and see if it really would turn into some kind of cool hybrid plant. Would you mind going to the trouble?
Well, that would be an interesting experiment, but the little topatos won't get a chance to mature I'm afraid. My potato plants have already starting the die-off process that they do before you harvest the potatoes. So, the little frankenfruits won't get much bigger than they are right now (very immature). I doubt they'd be fertile seeds anyway, to be honest. Sorry!
Isn't it ironic -- we wait eagerly for that first bean (which I usually pop in my mouth -- I LOVE raw green beans). And by the end of the picking, you're just SICK and tired of 'em! I sent a sack full home with my sister yesterday and canned my last (5) pints last night. Now, there is spinach planted where the beans were. : )
I read/heard somewhere that it takes 2 years for broccoli to seed. Did you get seeds from yours?
VivianRinSC 2 years ago
I know this is late but maybe it's something to consider this year. You can pickle green beans like you can cucumbers. Many veggies pickle well. So another way to use up green beans when you're tired of eating them the "regular" way. lol
VivianRinSC 2 years ago
hey, your " Topatoes " are poisonous, you can't eat them! and it is normal, that is potato seed and it happens on regular basis, so it isn't cross polination, that's what potato seed looks like. so if you plant that seed, it'll take two years to produce a potato.
alltreehugger 2 years ago
INTERESTING!!! I'd never had them form before. And the strange thing is, no other gardener that I showed them to knew what they were either! I just thought we had mutant garden plants. LOL Thanks for enlightening me. : )
Michigansnowpony 2 years ago
I've never seen that before either, but I'm pretty sure its just the potato plant going to seed. If you'd be so inclined to let those ripen, I'd love to plant that and see if it really would turn into some kind of cool hybrid plant. Would you mind going to the trouble?
dazigg 2 years ago
Well, that would be an interesting experiment, but the little topatos won't get a chance to mature I'm afraid. My potato plants have already starting the die-off process that they do before you harvest the potatoes. So, the little frankenfruits won't get much bigger than they are right now (very immature). I doubt they'd be fertile seeds anyway, to be honest. Sorry!
Michigansnowpony 2 years ago
I picked the rest of our beans today. Vines are gone!! Thankd goodness....lol. You have a lovely garden.
BLBMZ 2 years ago
Isn't it ironic -- we wait eagerly for that first bean (which I usually pop in my mouth -- I LOVE raw green beans). And by the end of the picking, you're just SICK and tired of 'em! I sent a sack full home with my sister yesterday and canned my last (5) pints last night. Now, there is spinach planted where the beans were. : )
Michigansnowpony 2 years ago
Woah! Don't eat the topatoe-- it might be poisonous. Keep 'em comin'... you're 3-4 weeks ahead of my garden in MN, zone 4a.
tabitie 2 years ago
Great garden Renee! I've never seen the "topatoes" before either and was unaware that could happen.
Dixie096 2 years ago
Only in Michigan. . . . only in my garden.
I'd plant wheat, but I'd probably have crop circles. ; )
Michigansnowpony 2 years ago