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1 tomato, 2, tomato, 3 tomato ......46 tomato plants MORE!

Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 8:54 pm

I have had a busy weekend. On Saturday morning I was up at 5 and couldn't get back to sleep. I was having a good friend over for dinner so I cleaned the whole house and made it presentable. Until yesterday morning the dining room table had my grow lights on it and was my inside greenhouse. So i had to find the table. After the table was discovered, I moved on to the kitchen. By 7am the whole of the downstairs was clean and presentable.

At 9 I mowed the lawn, I was only going to mow the front and around the flower beds but I felt so good that I did all around the veggie patch, and behind the house. felt good to get it all done. Then I put in about 12 of the tomato plants.

I had a loss on Friday. I was so busy getting ready and heading out for my bus route that I forgot to take off the hot house that was over my black krim, brandywine and other plants that had not been planted. I came home that night and half of them were fried. I watered them heavily and left them. about 10 passed. But some survived.

I was done working on Saturday just before 11 and had the rest of the day to relax. Novice101 (my friend) came over for dinner. She arrived around 3 and we walked the garden and house. It was a great visit.

I was soooo exhausted that I was in bed at half 8 and slept until 7 this morning.

Sunday morning we gave my husband his father's day gifts of english goodies and woodworking books then went out to the garden.

The weather was perfect for planting this morning. It was cloudy and misty and cool. I got the remaining tomato plants in...the final count is...46! So now I wait patiently and see how they do.

Everything is in the garden now expect for the cucumbers. I am waiting 1 more week to put those plants in. they hate the cold and we had a night of around 35 last week. They issued a frost warning but it stayed warmer.

My husband and I transplanted a few things that we dug up out of a flower bed that we moved. He was busy while I was planting the garden. He was removing the fallen branch from the apple tree. On Wednesday he removed the pear tree from where it was fallen and somehow it only ripped a hole in the screen of a window. It fell directly between 2 raspberry patches and didn't do any damage to either. That was some kind of divine intervention.

I walked around today with the camera and took a ton of pics of buds, blooms and of the garden.

5 buds on the white rose...



Gorgeous Honeysuckle




Budding and Blooming Rose





Morning Glories



Peonies




a Box of Sage


Lots of Small Blueberries!



Tire planter looking lovely.


Here are several pictures that show the progress we have made in the veggie garden.

Growing green beans.



repaired bean trellis


Growing Potatoes



growing Zucchini


Happy Peppers


The transplanted accidental sunflowers are doing very well!


Here are several views of the newly planted tomato plants.










Here is a total view of the garden.




I hope everyone had a great day and to those dads out there Happy Fathers day!


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petunia wrote on Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:01 am:


I can see you've been working really hard. your garden looks like its coming right along. I had some time from work & we just got ours in also hopefully we'll have about 70 plantsof toms. We'll can what we get. What do you do with your toms?




 

Sjoerd wrote on Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:05 am:


What a good bunch of pictures. You have a really good selection of flowers and veggies.
I hope that those beans and toms are going to be great producers for you. They're off to a good start now.




 

gardenmama wrote on Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:28 am:


I love to eat the toms right out of the garden, love tomato salads, tomato sandwiches...I hope this year that we will have enough of a crop that i can make some stewed tomatoes and can them...I would also love to make some salsa and can that too. Good luck with your toms. Petunia what do you like to do with yours?




 

Droopy wrote on Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:40 am:


My, you've been busy! Your garden is so nice, I love the way everything is growing for you. :D





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