Tuesday, June 26, 2012

How Does Your Garden Grow?

This is how mine is growing. These cherry tomatoes have gone bonkers. They have completely taken over. The cages they are in are extra large ones and usually do a good job keeping everything corralled. Not this year. Not these tomatoes. They already have hundreds of tomatoes on them. We have harvested a couple of dozen and they are delicious.


 

To give you an idea of the size, the beds are 11 feet long by 5 foot wide and only two tomato plants are in there. The one on the left, if stretched, would be over 8 foot in diameter!

 

This one on the right is a "Sunsweet" cherry. The left is "Sweet 100" cherry.
 
 

 An Early Goliath has more than fruit than I can count. This is just a few of them.
 

A few more
 

 Peppers are looking really good this year. I have three plants (this is one) planted between under the two cherry tomatoes. They seem to like it there and all three have multiple peppers on them. These three plants are "Rainbow".



Next is a volunteer brought in in the compost this spring. I have no idea what it is, but it has a lot of blooms. Between it and the cherry tomatoes, I'm surprised the "Candy" onions are doing so well in this bed.
 

One of my remaining beds of onions not knocked out by the wind. I have never grown onions successfully, so this year I researched it and ordered my sets and am very happy with the results so far. This variety is "Candy".
 

Up next is all my garden help this morning: Baby, Buddy, Butterfly, and Zebra.


They were not much help at all!
 
 

I planted some beets and chard. I have never planted either. This is the bed of the now pulled "Candy Apple Red" onions.


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6 comments:

  1. Annie*s GrannyJune 26, 2012 at 6:12 PM

    Is your garden on steroids? Maybe it's all that cute help that makes it grow so well ;-)

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    1. langelaJune 26, 2012 at 7:36 PM

      I don't know what happened this year. We have been really dry and I have only watered a few times. I tried to mow around those cherry tomatoes today but couldn't get very close without harming them, so it's kinda ugly around there tonight.

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  2. nutmeg gardenerJune 27, 2012 at 5:05 AM

    When I see the photo with the cornfield and the treeless expanse I am green with envy. I love where I live, but we are surrounded by large trees and my poor garden gets very little sun. Drives me nuts. Your tomatoes look amazing! And I love your help!

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    1. langelaJune 27, 2012 at 5:21 AM

      Nutmeg Gardener, I love trees! But I understand how they might not be good for gardening. I get sick when I see these big farming corporations moving into the area and stripping the land of its trees and fences and hills.

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  3. ChristyJune 27, 2012 at 8:08 AM

    Your tomato plants are huge! I am so jealous! I love to work in the garden with my boys but they seem to find other things to do - like play in the mud.

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    1. langelaJune 27, 2012 at 11:05 AM

      They really only enjoy it if there if fun involved. I only let them plant seeds once in awhile so it's still fun, as is running the tillers. Pulling weeds- has never been fun to them. I can't figure that out

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