This past weekend Frank and I turned out another piece of ground for our garden, it’s now in a sort of L shape. I have planted some green “bush” beans, and plan to plant some stringless green climbing beans at the end of that parcel.
In-between the beans are more tomatoes. I’ve never had as many tomatoes as I already had in the other parcel of garden from earlier in May. This is serious stuff!
I have three Mr. Stripey tomatoes, which are an heirloom variety. Six of a beefsteak or similar, and two more of different names, all the normal kind you’d find anywhere. I was thrilled to find an heirloom tomato plant for sale. I’ve never grown one, never could find any. I’d have to start them from seed, and that’s not happened as of yet.
I have room to add some more herbs, which I am more than happy to put in. I’ll make up a diagram of the garden one of these days, and upload it here.
I also put in 6 more pepper plants, a green bell variety. My first two pepper plants are doing fine. One has two fruit on it, fairly well developed, still small, but definitely not small. Both plants have been flowering, and both also have the beginnings of new fruit galore.
Most all of my earlier planted tomato plants are flowering now. One of them has 5 tomatoes, and is still flowering. No other tomato plant has obvious fruit yet. Most of the flowering just began the last few days … so it’s not so bad that there isn’t fruit on those plants yet.
Well, my gardening bug has grown to great portions this year. I’d love to expand the gardening space yet some more, and add even more variety. It’s kind of late June 2, to think about that, but not exceptionally so, considering we have until early November to safely grow most things, and with protection whatever is still producing late this Autumn will survive any early freeze … so I’m willing to gamble!
I’ll be wanting to do some cool weather crops also, sugar snap peas, garlic, and whatever else I come up with. So I’ve plenty to do on this land. And plenty of weeds to overturn to produce food.