July 11th Garden Update

Well here is my garden as of today:

Giant Tomato: The tomatoes are supposed be gigantic.  I read about them and they are supposed to be good for sauce.

Green Grape:  This the plant that refused to die.  Yeah!  All the leaves fell off but sice the stalk was still green I kept watering it and now it has new leaves.  Don't know if I will get anything from it but just feels good that it survived. lol

6 Tomato Plants: All the tomato plants taking in the sun!

Tomato (?): Got this at the Great Basin Food Coop seedling sale in late spring and there was a sign that said it was a "yellow pear tomato" but its way bigger then my other yellow pear so not sure what I will get.  So I am calling it "Surprise Tomatoes". :-)

Lemon Thyme:  Isn't he pretty? :-) Yes I said "he".  Just feels like a "he".  For some reason this is my favorite plant.  It smells WONDERFUL!

Oregano: Don't know what type but it has little white flowers all over.  Isn't she nice? (Yes she!)  She is very good friends with LT (Lemon Thyme).

Purple Bell:  Just started getting flowers.

Yellow Bell:  Also finally got flowers, Yippy!

Arugula & Lettuce: Planted this just last Tuesday (5th of July)....and LOOK already sprouting up! 

The rest:  There is a Lemon Cucumber next to LT and Strawberries on the lower level.  On the bench there are several Green/Red Bells, two types of herbs that I forgot to label so not sure what I am getting (oops), a Juliet Hybrid Tomato, Musk mellow and something else I forgot to label so not sure what it is either. LOL I know its probably too late for the ones on the bench but they are doing well so I am just going to go as far as I can with them.  My zucchini, yellow squash, broccolli, eggplant, green beans, cilantro and parsley didn't make it.  But considering this is the first time I have ever done this I am not doing to bad.

Kathy's Garden

Kathy has a wonderful summer garden going on.

The first pic is her onions, I just think there are funny looking.  The bottom one is her potato & sunchoke plants.  The sunchokes are huge.  I have never had one before, looking forward to trying one.

What's growing?

I keep getting asked what I am growing....so here it is:

I didn't plant any greens sort of forgot about them lol  Here is what I have planted that are growing like gang busters (the big plants):
Lemon cucumbers
yellow bell pep
purple bell pep
lemon thyme
oregano
2 yellow pears (my fav tomatoes)
green beans
grape tomato
zebra tomato
tomato sauce tomato...the giant kind
strawberries

In the greenhouse I have the following:
red & green bell peps
sumter cucumbers
zucchini
yellow squash
musk melon
pumpkin
eggplant
broccoli
green onions
 juliet tomato

Not sure about the greenhouse plants yet.  They are still in the seedling stage but hey since this is the first time I have ever grown anything I figure that what ever I get will be great :-).  Half of what I have out & in the green house I grew from seeds myself other half I got from garden centers around town including a mini farmers market that was just for seedlings. It was cool.  I want to grow lettuce and spinach...carrots and potatoes.  I want to grow stuff that is colorful (OF COURSE lol) and the types of things that are harder to find and when you do they are expensive.  I really wanted to grow white tomatoes and purple tomatoes, but found the seeds too late.  Oh and wanted to grow Orange bell peps and white & yellow cucs.  Maybe next year.  One of my friends told me its not too late to grow lettuce but it has to be kept in shade and wet because its a cold plant.  I just need to get long pots for them. 

Not to bad for my first time huh?