[KosmicKitty]

My mystery 'mato.

I bought a package of mixed heirloom seeds. I've been watching these tomatoes, but they didn't seem to be getting ripe. Well, it finally dawned on me that maybe they were meant to be green. Sure enough, they're green sausage tomatoes!!

Can't wait to try one. My Black Russians were spectacular!!

Finally - will used kitty litter - the non clumping kind - keep rabbits out of the garden if I spread it around the edges? I've got one little bunny thoroughly enjoying my bush beans and I;d like Mr BunBun to move on to some one else's yard.

[greeneyes]

Your mystery looks like a pepper.LOL Good pictures. Thanks for sharing. I wouldn’t want used kitty litter around my stuff.

I really don’t try to chase anything off. I just plant lots of extras, and we do set live traps and haul off whatever we catch. So far it’s left us enough to have a decent harvest.

[mlizzy]

We were told through our local garden haunt, that dried blood would keep the bunnies away (we use it)... Maybe you’ve already tried that?

[bgill]

Nice Black Russians there. I just ate the first 3 Black Cherry Tomatoes. So sweet! But none of the other “new” old varieties are putting on. Nice healthy plants, most over my head, but no blossoms. Of course, there’s new yellow pear plants popping up all over.

Walked out yesterday and something had eaten through the basil. There’s one sad one left. No digging holes so it wasn’t the armadillos but don’t know what. Something ate a couple of peppers to the ground, too. But the ginger root is sending up shoots.

I was pulling weeds a couple days ago and hubby insisted on helping. What part of no thanks do people not understand? Told him specifically ONLY touch the Johnson grass but we all know how that went. In less than 5 minutes I was down to one green bean vine, sigh. Earlier in the summer, mother decided she’d pull what she thought was the morning glory off the fence - yes, my beans. So, I planted black beans and kidney beans there and cranberry beans in part of the herb bed. It’s really too shady for herbs so maybe the beans will reach high enough for the sunshine. If not, I need to find something that is shady friendly but will tolerate 100+ heat. It hit 110 this week.