It's Only Been 30 Days!

Okay, I've already mentioned how weird our Spring weather here has been.  So this afternoon, feeling guilty about neglecting my veggie garden for nearly two weeks, I wandered out for a look see.  We were gone for four days and the last week has been non-stop storms and rain.  (It is clouding up again as I type!)  The weeds are finally tolerable, that was good.  Totaling the rain gauge for the week, we received 4.5 inches of rain so far.  But to be fair we did need part of that.  But much to my surprise, was the size of the tomatoes and peppers.  They've only been in the ground since June 2!  So, of course, I run back into the house like a crazy person to get my camera.

These are my tomatoes.  This year I planted 8 Celebrity tomato plants, 4 Roma tomato plants and one Sun Gold cherry tomato plant.    They've never been this big after one month, EVER.  I plant an interesting variety of pepper plants.  I have green peppers, banana peppers, jalapenos, cayenne and a couple of habanero plants.  My husband has a couple of different ghost pepper plants, but that's for another blog post.

So, I start looking closer at the peppers, and I couldn't believe my eyes.

There are actually peppers on these plants after one month!  And these plants didn't really have any blooms on them when I planted them.  I have Never had these kind of results.  The only thing I did different was I bought the plants early and re-potted them until I could get them into the ground.  (Plus a little Miracle Gro along the way!)  I just may have to re-think how I go about vegetable gardening from now on.