Some heavy rain and hail

We had hail and heavy rain the other night... and the hot humid weather changed to less humid and cooler.
The round "things" are the hail....

Lucky we had no crop damage.... I'd move most of the plants toward the house and under the roof overhang! dumb luck!!!

Veggies Keep Growing

These are tiny little cucumbers.. so cute!!! There are LOTS of them. The zucchini, on the other hand, are not doing well. I moved them to get more sun. Today, however, there was not much sun... so don't know if that will help!

The tomatoes are doing well... lots of little tomatoes. This is a plant that produces lots of little tomatoes... as you can see, it is doing it's thing.

more tomatoes... these should be larger and I think they will be yellow

And finally, the yellow beans. The green beans are doing well and now the yellow beans are "coming in". Another day or two and we will be eating yellow beans.

We are really enjoying our garden.. I check the plants at least once a day. I swear, you can see some of them grow! I'm already thinking about next year and what to add or not do. Radishes - will not be planting them next year. I do think I'll try several types of basil. I'm growing 2 this year. Planted seeds for a bush basil that's interesting. I'll have to check out other options next year.

The weather is still somewhat cool. It was overcast most of the day and felt muggy but not bad as it was only in the 70's. We are expecting warmer weather tomorrow.

Plants are doing good

I harvested the first of the beans and peas last week. Here they are!! Today I got enough beans to serve for tonight's dinner.

The zucchini is blossoming but the flowers are then falling off... and people say anyone can grow zucchini! Yikes~~what am I doing wrong? Will try to move them to where they get more sun. Hope that helps. The cucumbers are doing well and you can see little cucumbers.... Well, we both like cucumbers and only I like zucchini, so maybe that's why :(

The "garden" is flourishing. We had torrential rain last night with high winds and the plants are still upright. I do have cages on many of the tomatoes.

It has been a beautiful couple of days - in the 50's at night and low to mid 70's during the day. Except for when the storms come, the days have been clear and bright. We have eaten outside several times and today I had lunch outside while I read a book. Stop to smell the roses - or in my case, stop to enjoy the garden.

The Tomatoes are Lookin Good!

What a beautiful day! It was so hot and muggy yesterday. Then the thunder and rain came last night and this morning it was cool and clear. Below is a picture of "Husky Cherry Red" tomato. Small, but its only early June!! Yea!

These are tomatoes I bought early last month and they were only about 6 inches tall. I planted them right away and then purchased the cages anticipating they would grow. I had tomato plants quite a while ago and did remember how tall they got. I had forgotten that they needed to be cut back on the bottom so the plant would concentrate on growing tomatoes instead of branching out. (Thanks Jeff) The plant below is "Sweet 100 Hybrid". I've also got "Park's Whopper", "Early Girl" (not doing as much as these two), "Golden Jubilee" (yep, should be yellow), and "Mr. Stripey" an heirloom tomato. I also planted from seed Big Boy and a Roma tomato. They are not as far along but looking good. don't need a cage yet but I'm going to stake them tomorrow in anticipation of their growing more.

And then, there is always the salad mix that keeps growing after I cut it. This is a keeper...from seed and I'll plant more in the fall as it does well in cooler weather.

How the crops are doing

The tomatoes are doing great! These are two that I purchased at WalMart as they had a nice selection. I also planted seeds and those are doing well but are smaller. We should have loads of tomatoes if all goes well!

These are radishes that I really am not to happy with. They are thick skinned and not as tasty as I expected. Probably won't do them again next year.

This was exciting - starting to pick beans. I already have picked lettuce -had a salad of my OWN lettuce today for lunch. Last night we had beans..... all 8 of them. Yea, I know, whoopee. But is is a big deal 'cause I grew these little guys from seeds and here they are! I also have TWO pea pods and hope more will come as that's not too many peas. As you can see, I have lots of containers on the front deck where the sun is really strong. There are herbs on the other side of the tomatoes as you go around to the side. In front of me I have squash, more beans and tomatoes and various types of peppers.

Close up of some of the beans. Small... but a quick zap in the microwave and they were added to last night's salad. I left them whole to be sure we could find them :)

More pictures to follow.... yum yum.