This is what is left of my little garden. Two tomato plants and a pepper plant. The tomatoes took over the planter.
This Fall has been good for the tomatoes!! The cooler weather and rain has sure helped them! They have done better this fall than both spring and summer combined. Look at all the tomatoes I am waiting on to ripen. I know there are fifty or more.
There are a few ready to pick. Let me tell you we usually don't get to the house to wash them before the kids eat them. Kate and Luke LOVE the tomatoes from the garden!
These were the tomatoes I picked or had fallen off on the day these pictures were taken.
The pepper plants are really doing good too!
This morning I was so excited to find all this ready to be picked!!! Kate and Luke will have a big snack when they get home from school!! We are having salsa, queso, and tostadas for dinner tonight!
My first experience gardening has been fun and a little disappointing. My corn grew really well but did not pollinate or whatever the right term is. I had nubby little corn cobs, and I learned corn only produces one cob per stalk. You would have to plant a lot of corn to feed our family. I was excited that the corn grew very easily and quickly. Carrots did grow but they were pretty small. The seeds were very small and hard to plant. I only got two sunflowers because the birds kept eating my seeds. It was too hot to grow strawberries. My cucumber plant died when we were on vacation. I was kind of disappointed with the tomatoes at first. I thought I would have gotten a lot more. They would have lots of blooms but then no tomato would grow. The tomato plants have redeemed themselves this fall though. When I planted the peppers I envisioned bacon wrapped peppers stuffed with cream cheese, but I never had enough to make a batch. It was also a pain to find somebody to water the plants when we were out of town. All of that being said, I do plan to try again next spring. :0) I will plant more tomato plants and way less corn!
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