Tag: tomato

  • Gardening technique is kinda like life

     

  • Tomato Apocalypse

    I just couldn’t take it any more. Our yellow cherry tomatoes were so severely overgrown, and no one would eat them, so I pulled out the two plants. You know its gotten bad when your harvest has filled all the baskets and bowls in the house and you’ve resorted to the bags the oranges came in. Yeah, that bad!

    I’m hopeful that the space I’ve created will give room for our two heirloom tomato plants to finally reach their potential.

    It felt very weird to hack away at a perfectly healthy plant just because we couldn’t stomach eating the fruit it was producing any more. As I pulled the vines out of a tree it had grown into (almost 20 feet from the base) I just kept wondering what kind of fruit I’d rather have planted and wished it had grown this much. Strawberries? Grapes? Apples? Snicker bars?

    With yellow tomatoes gone with now have some significant areas we need to replant in the coming weeks. The big question in our minds is, “Do we plant for another summer harvest or do we get and early start on a fall garden?”

  • Bean Crazy

    Crazy beans

    Our summer garden is coming right along.

    This is our bean patch. We’ve got climbing pole beans in the front. You can see that the pole beans have gotten to the top of my makeshift bean-o-matic. So I just thought I’d encourage the growth some more by extending the twine from that bean-o-matic over to the fence.
    Three tomatoes

    Our amazing tomato plants continue to explode. Our yellow tomato plant is now over 10 feet tall! The harvest has officially begun. I have a feeling we will be giving away a lot of tomatoes.

    Cucumbers, eggplant, jalapeño, green pepper, and sweet corn are just weeks away.

    BONUS QUESTION:

    Mystery flower

    What the heck is this flower growing in our garden? Identify this flower and win.

  • The harvest is coming!



    Yellow tomatoes, originally uploaded by mclanea.

    Yesterday Paul and I were doing our daily look through the garden. He leaned in and yelled, “Daddy, check this out! We’ve got lots of tomatoes!”

    In just a couple of weeks all of our summer garden plants will mature and start producing produce. We can’t wait!