The garden

Well our garden is flourishing and it is certainly not because of anything I've done. We've had so many big storms followed by hot humid days and the tomatoes in particular are loving it!! Unfortunately, I've been feeling so yucky that vegetables of any kind don't really sound very good to me but...we've got em.

At least Michael and Katelyn are loving the tomatoes.

Thanks to the compost that we tilled in with our soil we have some surprise guests in the garden this year. A couple of butternut squash seedlings grew and grew and now they've taken over half the garden...but I did nothing and we've got a great crop of butternut squash growing.

Our other surprise guest was a cantalope plant and we've got a couple of nice melons coming in. Yeah!

Katelyn helped me pick a bowl full of cherry tomatoes today. She loves these things. She says, "They explode in your mouth."

She's such a good helper.

I bought these tomato plants that were on death row at Lowes for 50 cents a plant. I got 4 of them and 2 basil plants for $3, picked off the dead leaves and planted them. I paid $2 for a 4 pack of the cherry tomato plants (3 survived). So for $5 and the surprise guests from the compost we have a good garden going on back there. :) I think I need to be feeling better in the next few days so I can can some tomatoes. I don't think we'll be able to eat all of these this week. And there are lots more coming in! Most of these were off one plant. Good grief.

And the cherry tomatoes are delicious! Just ask Katelyn.