new garden delights

budding sunflower

new tomato

something budding

for a salad

our yellow pear tomatoes are coming along quite well. we have so many of them, I pick them off to eat as a snack now and then. The hot peppers I don't even try. Nate likes them in salsa. Our green leaf lettuce has run its course for this year. I'm looking forward to starting it again next year. 

new garden photos

some new yellow pear tomatoes. we've been very successful with these, this year and last. 

not sure what this is growing in the compost pile. I think it's some kind of potato. we'll see. 

corn. lots and lots of corn. 

hot pepper

rogue on the compost box. she likes to claw at the wood.

the rose bush has done really well since I trimmed it back, A LOT. 

and lots of sage. 

we have a watermelon!

I could hardly believe it when Nate showed it to me! The weather has been unbearably HOT (feels like 102F today) and most things are withering brown and dying. I was wondering how a watermelon would grow on a vine, but it is! I am so ecstatic! I am hoping this one comes to fruition so we can have some for later this year. Watermelons take a LONG time to grow, and this is a baby one. We'll keep an eye on it to see how it progresses. 

Our tomatoes are growing really well. Almost everyday we have at least a few yellow pear tomatoes and one big red tomato.

even the hanging tomato planter is producing! 

bad news...

the corn looks terrible and all eaten up, one of the watermelon plants is shriveling, and the pepper plants are only producing small peppers. I think we started too late on some things, and it's too hot now to save them. Next year we'll start earlier. In September we'll try the cooler weather plants.

On a brighter note, we have LOTS and LOTS of yellow pear tomatoes! yay!

bounty from the garden

I'm thrilled to report we have A LOT of yellow pear tomatoes! and some red big boy tomatoes too! Look!

A couple of the red tomatoes looked ready to burst, but they still looked good. I've had a few of the yellow ones for lunch. It's great to be able to go in the backyard and pick some food for lunch. 

Scotty was guarding the yard for me while I was picking...

and the watermelons are starting to take over the yard...

I can't wait to see how they turn out! The red of the tomatoes looks beautiful against the green of the plants...

I'm having some of these with my salad for dinner. Can't wait!

The passion vines are in full bloom too. These are so pretty. I've cut some flowers on the vine and set them on top of the water in the fish pond. They last for a few days like that and look very pretty.

I hope everyone enjoyed their 4th of July holiday and are well rested and still have all their limbs, fingers, and toes. Happy gardening!