What's Growing!?

Look what's almost ripe! This is my first year growing the Wayahead variety - it's like they're a cross between a cherry- and standard-sized tomato. This first bract of tomatoes is too low and a slug got one of them. I'm leaving that one there, hoping it'll lure slugs away from the other tomatoes - UNLESS it starts to rot, and then it's coming off. I'm thinking I might get to eat a tomato before the end of the weekend! None of my other tomatoes are even CLOSE to this ripe - most are just starting to put out flowers. Then again, I haven't pinched suckers, so their energy's going in all the wrong places. Must. Go. Pinch!


Yellow squash and a pumpkin!


Here come the patty pans!


Peppers! (I don't recall which variety this was)


These just LOOK like they're gonna be hot peppers!


This is where beans come from. And they're taking a loooong time getting here!


So this next pic is the last raised bed I built - it's got yard-long beans just to the left of the frame (my first time growing them), and sunflowers, plus cukes in the middle (vining in the center, bush along the outer edge), and then eggplants and beans at the far end. It's starting to look like the Derby beans (far end) are actually a RUNNER type bean, and that I wasn't paying attention. Oops. Or they're just really tall beans plants. And I'm thinking maybe some of the bush cukes and vining cukes got mixed up...or bush cukes still have some vining traits to them. And then there's the marigolds - I'm growing a new variety and worked them in to hopefully deter some pests, but wow, it's a TALL variety of marigolds! They're as tall as the eggplants...might have to yank a few.


I've never grown Bells of Ireland before - started some seeds this winter and just realized today they'd formed their "flowers". Pretty!


The romanesco's starting to form. But of course, the temps are shooting up again, meaning it might force it to bolt. Grrr... Definitely going to have to try fall crops of broccoli and such.


The biggest cucumber so far... I think I'll get to pick it this weekend? And after that we may be inundated with cukes!


This should form an eggplant some day!



Didn't think to take a picture before I picked the first blueberries from this bush the other day. MUCH bigger than those from the first bush!


Hello Stargazer!


Volunteer sunflower by the bird feeders.


I've been waiting on these sweet peas since I started them in like March!! Finally some blooms opened today!


Love the dahlia!


Some of the wave petunias I started from seed - these two colors are a bit shocking together...but kind of fun!


They seem to take turns at which color does best - first the reds were going best, now these hot pink ones are taking the lead.


Corner of the deck... You can see one of the asian pears peeking up over the deck hanger on the left. As you can tell, I like a crowded look with my plants! ;-)


New members of the family... In the green pots, left foreground - fig tree branches I cut from a tree mom got here back in March. They took awhile to root, but are doing well now. And on the right side foreground is the new meyer lemon tree I got - it was 50% off and I think the girl was yammering with her friends and gave me a discount on the discount? Got it for $15!! Wonder if I'll have lemons next year? This'll have to come indoors each fall and winter.


It took these guys FOREVER to sprout from their bulbs in their temporary pot. Now I need to transplant them in with other plants.