The 'maters are gettin' tall.

In just a matter of days....

We have had some nice mild weather, with temperatures around the upper 80's. I have had to water more than I like, but that is also to wash off the tiny red tomato bugs that invaded. With the Sevin dust and the washings...those bugs have been relatively harmless, though. 

We have lift-off!

Greetings everyone! The garden is now growing and producing in full force. Nothing harvested yet, aside from a few beans and strawberries...but it's all growing rather impressively. 

    

No real problems to report. I did have to apply some Sevin Dust to the entire garden, as we have random bugs invading from all sides!! But a sprinkling or two of "the dust" and they subside within a day or two. 

I have also found that washing the leaves and bits (top and bottom) on the tomato plants keep the lil buggers away between 'dustings'. 

Okies...that's it for now...later gators!

Garden Update

With the torrential downpours of May over, we have finalized our garden layout and have a current count of what made it. The majority survived, which I was very happy about. I also realize my pictures are not as good as they could be, but I have been taking them with my phone...as I can't find the batteries for my camera. Soon, though...soon. Heh.

So,  in the main garden we have:
15 green bean plants, 2 bell pepper plants, 4 habenero pepper plants (but I think 2 may not make it, it could go either way), 2 ghost pepper plants, 14 tomato plants (very healthy ones too), 8 jalapeno plants, 24 Brussels sprouts, 8 cabbage, 4 lettuce, 2 zucchini and 2 cucumber.

Randomly around the yard we have:
2 strawberry plants, and the sunflower plants (which seem to live through anything), Cilantro, Basil...and some other random things.

So here's some pictures to show off...

The tomato's...

Brussel sprouts, cabbage, cucumber and zucchini... 

The sunflowers...

Strawberries...

Cilantro and basil.