I am eating my first tomato from my garden! First ones I have ever grown by myself! YUMMY Also eating fresh green beans that my neighbor cooked and Italian beef I cooked in the crock pot the other night. What did you have for lunch?
Congrats on your first tomato! Sounds like you had a lovely lunch I didn't have anything quite as good.....2 rather gross oranges (not at all juicy) and an icky dry bran muffin :(
I had a salad with fresh peas and green beans from my yard. YUM! I am so not a gardener but this year I did some bucket plants. I posted these on myspace but this seems like an appropriate thread too. Here are my baby tomatoes and an eggplant! Also my first ever tomato! Cheers! To our first tomatoes! <img height=350 src=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/wyomingvintage/diaryland/hokejuly2008/eggplant2.jpg> <img height=350 src=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/wyomingvintage/diaryland/hokejuly2008/eggplant.jpg>
Those bucket plants look like fun! I didn't know I would get so excited. I need to take pictures, too.:singing: Don't feel bad about the icky lunch. Most of the time I eat a hotdog.:spin:
wow, its soo cool isnt it? l had my first bowl of strawberries and cream last night..so sweet tasting...and l have had two tomatoes so far, verysweet also..but as soon as they turn red l pop on in my mouth, how will l ever have enough for a salad that way.. l have beef toms and plum toms too, butt hey are no way ready. This is the first lot lve grown myself since the hurricaine took away my greenhouse and orchids in the Great STorm of '87..(which l slept through) LOL
I have 5 tomato plants in BIG containers, in all a grand total of 4 green tomatoes. Is it coolish nights or lack of bees that's causing them not to set? Trying to recall varieties--red currant, usually covered with thousands of TINY tomatoes; the plant goes 12 to 15 feet--green grape, sweet 100 I think, a white tomato and another green one. Looks like I'm getting no fruit anyway; luckily I love the smell of tomato plants. But I'd really love some homegrown, with the ongoing salmonella scare...
We are having a slight heat wave here with no rain until last night. I don't know how many tomatoes I will have but I planted about 10 plants to make sure I had enough to maybe can some. Wow, look at those huge strawberries! I have some, too, but they are not that big! So you can just grow them in a pot? Mine come up every year in a raised bed about 4 by 8 foot and they spread. It was fun going out with my grandson and helping him pick some for his breakfast.
Wow...you're gonna save yourself some money this year on tomatoes. I got some from the farm stand and they're asking a buck a piece for the handful sizes. Mine aren't doing too well, as I've ignored them. Have several bouquets of flowers out of the garden so far, though! We had 6" of rain in the last 48 hours, so the weeds will be a-poppin next week.:eyebrow2:
It's calling for rain this weekend but all we had was a little last night. Know what you mean about the weeds a poppin up. I have raised beds but had to mow around all of them with a push mower. Then using the riding mower to mow the front and the back and the back 40 has kept me busy all week. Hope it rains so I don't have to think of it. I don't know how the tomatoes have survived except I have watered them a few times, pulled the weeks and fluffed up the soil around them. I have done no spraying. These are all grown naturally.
We have a garden for the first time this year. I've mentioned in other threads, we purchased my dh's parents house. His Dad helped us get started and we've done okay. We harvested lettuces in late spring early summer, we've gotten some wonderful onions and our peppers and tomatoes are going nuts. Normally we would already be eating the tomatoes but they are not ready yet. It has been a weird spring/summer weather wise. We also have all kinds of fresh herbs. I have been having such fun finding recipes to use with them. My parents already have their tomatoes and they brought some the other day. I made from scratch spaghetti sauce with their tomatoes and fresh herbs....I don't think I'll ever be able to eat grocery store sauce again! It was so yummy and fresh! Sorry, to hijack but I'm getting lots of strawberries that are absolutely beautiful and red but are really really bitter, not sweet at all. What am I doing wrong??
Garden report: We ate all the spinach and snap peas. Couldn't eat all the lettuce - it was good, but we planted too much and now it's bitter. we ate 3 eggplants, and more on the way. We picked green beans 4 times and there are more on the way. And we ate tomatoes 4 and 5 tonight, with 6-8 waiting on the counter. Asparagus is in it's 2nd year. Next year - we are eatin it! Hollis
Carrie...you might want to take a soil sample to your local extension office for analysis. It costs $5 -$20 depending on the location. That might tell you if there is something tart in the soil that the berries don't like. If they are first or second year, they won't be very good. It just takes a few seasons for them to mature.
