Tomato update

The tomato plants that are in cages are now over five feet tall. That's up to my nose high, and covered with green tomatoes.

Grapefruit harvest

After eating all the grapefruit we wanted, and giving some away, we picked three full wheelbarrows of it and made about 75 jars of bottled grapefruit juice. Amazing how much one tree can yield.

A Garden Teaches Patience and Planning

So for those who think a garden is for food, here's a news flash. It is also for learning things like patience, and planning. Look at the difference one month makes in a tomato patch along the right side of these photos.

Sprouting tomato seeds

This was a first for us. Tomatoes from the store developed dark bumps, which when cut open turned out to be little tomato seedlings trying to push their way out. The skin is pulled back so you can see the seedlings.

Growing, growing

Everything is growing, blooming, and setting fruit. We did have some difficulty with the Zucchini this year. Fruit would blossom and set, and then over the next several days slowly wither and blacken on the blossom end. Turns out to be the same malady as blossom end rot that tomatoes have. Calcium spray on the leaves and presto - fruit are now ripening normally. Albeit, with zucchini, normal means if you miss a day checking them they multiply and replenish the earth. My father in law said zucchini fed the Israelites in the wilderness, because every morning there was more of it...

The tomato plants are approaching three feet high, and starting to fall over to the point that a person can't walk between the rows, or even see the rows for that matter.