Yesterday, I had the surreal experience of crawling through a "cave" made of tomato vines. I can't remember ever having a similar experience in my nearly 41 years, despite having a garden nearly every year when I was young. Even more amazing to me was the fact that among the probably 100 green tomatoes of various (and large!) sizes, there was exactly one fully-ripe tomato, which I picked. There was not even a single spot of yellow among all the many fruits, just one red tomato and at least 100 green ones. Just to add to the mystery of this delicious fruit...it was the size of my fist...no kidding!
Here are the kids, about a week ago, in the garden. I wanted Amber to take a few pictures of the garden with us in it, for scale. Isaac is next to the "Rumbo" squash, which will be comperable to pumpkin in size and shape. The corn is putting-up its tassle stalks, though you can't see that from these pictures. The girls are enjoying a pair of early carrots. And we have had fresh green beans at dinner for the last week.
Since these pictures, the tomatoes are almost 6 feet tall, and are covered with new blossoms. The strawberries are now spent, but were so delicious to snack-on. Our only question-mark this season are the potatoes. I haven't raised them before, and so I have no idea if things are going well, or if they are headed for disaster. We'll see.
Enjoy the pictures!
5 comments:
Don't worry about the potatoes they can take care of themselves. I bought a tomato plant that was suppose to have a ripe tomato by the 4th of July. There is no tomatoes ripe. I wonder if the nursery will take it back. I know it won't be long. We have picked 4 cucumbers and I picked about 6 little yellow squash for a stir fry today. They were too little but they tasted great.
WOW! What a garden. Next thing we know you'll be the special feature on Crockett's Victory Garden.
That is a huge garden. It looks beautiful. Good job!
Ditto! Your garden is amazing! Although the move was hard, I'm sure having a lovely yard to play in and enough room for this awesome garden has been wonderful for the kids and Will!
where do you!!! the garden of eden. I have NEVER seen a garden as big as yours either. WAY TO GO GUYS!!
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