Garden Update and Tomato Count

It's a few days late, but this week has been super rough, so here goes.

We have some Cubanelle peppers coming along...

...and a few tomatoes ripening

....speaking of tomatoes, we have 181 of them!

I picked the first two ripe grape tomatoes and ate them with artisan mozzarella, for a snack. YUM!!!

Until next time!

Garden Update: Tomato Count: A Day Late...

...but if you had seen my 4th of July Weekend, you'd totally understand.

Anyway....

Tomatoes are getting TALL! And there are 107 of them now!

You can't see it in this picture, but that tomato is getting some color!!!

...psychocactus is blooming...

..and I'm set to get a bunch of peppers! yay!

Until next time!

Garden Update/Tomato Count: End of June Edition

Last week, we had 64 tomatoes. This week, we have a whopping 89!!!!

My psychocactus is coming along nicely. I should have full on flowers by the end of the week

Ella says hey :)

I've got plenty of pepper blooms and buds, which means I will eventually have plenty of peppers

My other plants are doing well. I forgot to photograph the dahlias again, but they are coming along.

That's all for now! We're painting some planters this week, which means I'll have to find some plants to put in them!!!

Yet Another Garden Update and Tomato Count

You'll have to excuse these pictures. It's been so unbelievably HAWT that I didn't get out there until late.

I have peppers in bloom.

Psychocactus too.

We have some new additions (dahlias and angel trumpets, but they're just babies and I'll photograph them another time)

Our tomatoes are doing great! Our main plant finally has a (big!) tomato on it and is up past Ella's knee!

We also counted tomatoes and are up to 64!!!!

Garden Update and Tomato Count

Despite the insane weather we have (way too hot, then torrential downpours, etc), the tomatoes are doing very very well!

The plant reaches almost to Ella's knee now. Considering that those plants almost died before I had a chance to put them into the ground, I think that's awesome!

We currently have 57 tomatoes! Yup, 57!!!

The rest of my veggies are doing well, too....although I am worried about my Walmart reject pepper. (bell pepper) It didn't look all that great when I bought it, but that big green pepper on it is hanging in there.

My cubanelles are doing well. I didn't photograph anything but the psychocactus, herbs, and the bell peppers because we had a bout of high winds and I had to move everything inside AND help Ella with her Father's Day present for Gabe.

Never a dull moment here.

...until next time :)

Garden Update/Tomato Count

Our garden is doing pretty well, all things considered. Something is still trying to eat my cubanelle pepper plant, and now I'm looking at having to get a new spray bottle because Tom knocked my last one off the deck and broke the sprayer mechanism. The going theory is that he was going after a hummingbird. (I hung my feeder last week)

Hummingbirds: 1
Tom: 0, and he owes me a new spray bottle.

I've given away a bunch of basil and mint, but it keeps coming up!

My bell pepper is hanging tough....

...and it may soon have some company

We're up 21 tomatoes from 5 days ago. I'll update again in 5 days. I cannot wait to start harvesting!!!!!

Garden Update/Tomato Count

I am so stinkin' excited. This is the first house we've lived in in this state that we are able to have a garden. Yes, we have our shared spot at the Community Garden, but this little patch is OURS, and Ella and I are very proud to care for it.

Well, actually, we have the tomato patch and then the stuff in pots on my deck (which apparently we will be adding to...I'm a sucker for plants.)

I've had terrible luck with tomatoes. Like, when I lived in TX and they.all.DIED. I thought I was going to have to live vicariously through Grandpa Bruce's tomato garden (which is fine, because come on, it's amazing), and I was really hesitant to start my own garden. But then we ended up with plants from one place, and then our new neighbor gave us a few more...and...well....

Our landlord is awesome and is letting us use some space in front of his house to have our tomato patch. Thank you, Tony :)

Ella and I have been tracking the progress of the tomatoes and man, have they grown!!!

The first picture was taken 5 days ago, and the one in striped socks is today. No, the socks don't match. Nope, I don't care ;)

Oh, and we went out there and counted baby tomatoes today.

There are 22. If things keep going the way they are going, we will have plenty to share :) :) :)

Our other plants are doing well, too. I'm a bit worried about a bell pepper I got at Wal-mart. It didn't look that great to begin with, but it has one bell pepper already on it....

See? The leaves don't look that great....

...but there's new growth and it looks better.

I've also noticed that some sort of insects had been chomping on the leaves of my peppers.

So I mixed up some soapy water and sprayed the leaves. I hope it works!!!

My psychocactus is still...well, psycho.

and my aloes have gotten taller since I got them, I think...

First shot was from 6 days ago, last shot now.

Again, I'm so excited to be gardening!