Busy!

No updates for the last several days, because I've been busy! And it seems as though my garden's been just as rambunctious as me. Pictures galore, see for yourself!


So I have, at the moment, 4 Better/Big Boy (I forgot which, whoops!), 1 July, 2 heirloom, and 6 cherry tomato plants. For the math challenged, that's 13 tomato plants. THIRTEEN. I'm going to have to learn how to can tomatoes, for sure.

Three of them already have bunches of blooms on them already, so I'm sure I'll have a few to show off come July.

The biggest ones are a foot and a half to two feet high, about up to my knees. Thank you summer-come-early! It's been 80s several days the past week or so.

The lettuce is edible! I thinned it out a little (yes, this picture is of THINNED lettuce) and made a couple salads, and had some on a hamburger. It's a 'Buttercrunch' variety, and it's got a real good flavor. Way better than the stuff I'm used to from the grocery. I think I've been converted.

[Remember, this is what it looked like just a couple weeks ago...









 ...so wow.]

Cucumbers are finally growing! I won't jinx myself, but the seedings are coming up, and the transplants have taken. The really warm weather helped, I'm sure, but just to make sure I have some BT coming in the mail. Turns out it was some fly larvae chewing out the cuke and bean stems from underground. Eww.

I'll put the trellis in later, once they've gotten a little bigger. This picture (as are all here) was taken yesterday, and even now their second set of leaves have started to come on. Sweet!


Garlic, Peas, and more pictures... I'm getting lazy, so I'll let them do the talking. One note though, I went to the farmer's market, and saw some peppers. I had ripped up two of my pepper plants, cause they looked wimpy/sickly, and wanted replacements. A small thing of six cost $1.50 (!!! I should do more shopping at the tail end of the season). So... I planted the extra four around my other plants. I now have a total of 11 pepper plants. Four Cali Sweet, One chocolate, Six (the newbs) Purple Sweet. Yeah... I hope I can can peppers too.

And, because I feel like it, a tally:

Tomatoes: 13
Peppers: 11
Onions: 19
Garlic: 5
Cucumbers: 10 (more TK)
Glads: 10 (more TK)
Lettuce: lots!
Peas & Beans: 12ish

Totals: Priceless

( /dork =] )