Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Growing... Growing... Growing!!!

One of the most enjoyable parts of gardening is watching the garden grow!  I love seeing how my tomatoes are so much taller now than they were at my last post.  It's so enjoyable!
 Above are my cucumber and cantaloupe.  These were started as seedlings.  Below are 2 different tomatoes.  The small, barely visible is a Jelly Bean, started as a seed in this planter.  The larger is a Cherokee Purple, started from a 4" pot.
 
 Above is one of many tomato plants which is loaded with a tomatoes in various stages of readiness.  This plant is the Better Bush tomato.  Below is a pic of all of the tomatoes: Lemon Boys in the yellow buckets, Husky Red Cherry in the white bucket (close up of the ripening, barely orange tomatoes 2nd pic below!), and Better Bush in the orange.
 
 
 Peppers.  This year I have 3 pepper varieties.  4 total plants of Sweet Banana Peppers.  1 plant each of Jumbo Nacho Jalapeno and a regular Jalapeno.
 Watermelons in the above green bucket and strawberries in the below trick-or-treat buckets.  Strawberry plants are loaded with blooms and baby green strawberries!  My girls are so excited!
 And then my zucchini and eggplant.  These are also started from seedlings, so I expect they will really take off growing by the next post!
Happy Gardening!!!