A Harvest!!!!

Mary is very happy that we finally were able to harvest some vegetables. Here you see her holding a tomato, a yellow squash, and a zucchini. To the right is me holding the same harvest and bag of Organic Miracle Gro. Notice the Doo Rag.

Above and to the right is what we expect to harvest tomorrow. The tomatoes are from our Goliath tomato plants. Our Better Boy tomatoes have tomatoes on them but they have not started to ripen.



This morning Mary and I started working at 7AM. We planted additional peppers, eggplants, including a couple of Japanese eggplants, a watermelon, several stalks of corn to replace the ones that didn't make it, a few additional green beans, a couple more tomatoes, and 3 heads of lettuce. I don't think I'm forgetting anything. Tomorrow I plan to take an inventory of what we've planted and hopefully, I'll be able to track our yields so we can do a better job of planning next year. We changed the lattice work that Mary had created for the cucumbers so they resemble cages. I think this is a better solution. We also created some fencing for the cantaloupes to keep the from spreading too far. By the time we had completed all this fencing and planting it was 11AM and the flies had decided that I was a tasty treat, (I hate flies!!!!) so we decided to call it a day. We did put more Sevin on the eggplants because we found another one of those Colorado Potato Beetles. Tomorrow when I water, I'm going to check everything really well and possible but Sevin on everything.

All in all, I think we had a good day. I made Mary promise not to buy any more plants. We'll see how that works out. She'll find a space somewhere to plant them I'm sure. The shower sure felt good when I got home!!!!