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…and what a tasty, tasty, 1.75 lb tomato that was! Plenty more where that came from and now the bell peppers are finally ripening. I roasted some little squashes and a mutant pumpkin today, Joy made salsa and curry zucchini muffins with walnuts, and we’re going to take a stab at cream of tomato soup with basil in the next few days. A few updated garden pictures as one hot summer month comes to an end… The tomato forest – if you look out the bedroom window now, all you see is tomato plant… and the one to the right is working it’s way toward the gutter above now. Mishmash of tomatoes, peppers, elephant ear plant, pumpkins, okra and squash. Next time we’ll space things out a bit more, it’s almost impossible to walk through here now. One of the roses rallied for a second wave of blooms. It came from florida, so maybe it’s used to this much heat? The feral melon patch. There are now a few plants that look like tomatoes coming up as well. Why can’t things grow this easily when I try planting them on purpose? Okra bloom The other side of the porch is also threatening to become engulfed in tomato vine as well. The day has finally come… big Bertha was ready to pick. Not sure what to do with her, but we had some fun doing comparative size studies… Human head vs. mutant tomato Mutant tomato menacing Paddy The one on the left is actually smarter. Simon meets Bertha Bertha and one of her siblings Bertha and one of the pink tomato cubes. I’ll bet it’s afraid for its life. So I took that random 6′ privacy fence panel we’d had replaced and cut it up a few weeks back, with the help of some power tools we found at a thrift store (total cost under $25 including new blades)… Then I made a couple of small raised beds for next year out of the pieces: Last week I lined them with cardboard, and added several layers of newspaper, then last year’s barrel of compost to the bigger one. It didn’t really fill it, so I just dumped this year’s bin in as well. Then, when Joy’s mom was here yesterday and we were showing her the garden, we found a bit of a ’surprise’. I have no idea what they are. We had a cantaloupe a few weeks ago, some watermelon before that. I think I tossed some okra that was too woody to eat recently, so there were lots of seeds in that mess. There are several dozen of these buggers. Guess we wait and see what they turn into. In other garden news, the squash and okra are flourishing, as well as the tomatoes, peppers, and the elephant ear: This was supposed to be a pie pumpkin? there were several seedlings – some are making pumpkins, and then there’s this. Can we eat it? How do we tell when it’s ready? Are we going to step outside one day and hear a voice boom “Feed me, Seymore!”? The Mr. Stripey (hybrids) have crested the 8′ stakes and are making a break for the porch. This is a Cherokee purple monster. That mass in the middle that looks like two tomatoes is one big ugly goon. It must weigh at least two pounds and it hasn’t turned. pruning the brandywine bush… … which is also making monsters. What Mr. Stripey lacked in size (it was supposed to be a beefsteak variety) it makes up for in volume, and they are tasty little devils! A big weed we pulled out of the garden Last year when we were still waiting on the closing for the house, I drove Joy nuts bringing home plants in anticipation of our own garden. One of them was this sad, bedraggled castoff stargazer lily that was sitting in a shopping cart marked down to $2 at Ingles. Last year, we couldn’t even be sure it was still alive. It didn’t flower. This year it grew slow, but was clearly going to bloom… Yesterday afternoon we were greeted by this – I swear I did not photoshop the color on it We’ve also got some ‘volunteer’ sunflowers under the bird feeder. (look close and you’ll see the flower has a visitor) The dill bloomed, and we’ve left the flowers since the bees seem to love them. Apparently, ants as well. Even the hostas are blooming. We’ve got a never ending bounty of marigolds, and the other unidentified but pretty flowers, as well. I love this time of year. |
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It has two more buds getting ready to bloom.
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