News Flash and Updates

We have Tomatoes!  I picked the first one on this past Monday (8/12) and have picked another six or seven since then.  Not the prettiest tomatoes ever, but sure taste good.

Just sliced up and ate the first one with a little salt and pepper.  Then had another on tacos.  I definitely see BLTs in my future!  The orange cherry tomatoes are starting go crazy, also.



Update No. 1:  I wrote before about my volunteer flowers by my porch step.  The petunias and snapdragons that just showed up from several years ago.  Well, they have a new buddy. A moss rose (aka Portulaca Grandaflora).

The long stemmed straggly looking plant that hasn't bloomed yet, to the left, is the moss rose.  And these guys go way, way back.  We're probably talking ten years since I had any in the front porch pots.  It will be interesting to see what color they turn out to be.
 I have pretty much ignored these guys all summer and they just keep blooming.  Cool!









Update No 2:  In one of my earlier posts, I promised to take more pictures of the new flower bed on the west side of the house.  As you recall, I couldn't find any pictures of the daylilies that were planted there previously.  Well, here we go.

The "Julia" coneflowers are all in bloom and the Russian Sage has gotten a little bigger.
These coneflowers have been really prolific.  I've cut blooms off several times and brought them in the house. They look really nice in my yellow kitchen!










Did I mention that my tomatoes are really yummy this year?  

It's Finally That Time of Year!

Ah, the anticipation is starting to build.  It's that time of the year when all your hard work pays off.  Yes, it's getting to be Harvest Time!  Wait, you say, it's only the beginning of August.  I picked veggies out of the garden yesterday!  Yeah, the crowd cheers!   Okay, so it was a couple of green peppers (kinda small, too!), a dozen or so Banana Peppers and approximately 3 dozen Jalapeno Peppers.  But there are still lots on the plants and the cayenne could be picked now too.  There are even green peppers on the habaneros.  Yippee, more hot sauce!

But, the best find in the garden this weekend was this....

Yessss!  It's almost tomato time.  The best time of the summer.  Garden fresh tomatoes.  Yum-O!  The ones you can buy in the grocery store year round are just pathetic.  They're mealy and have zero taste.  I can hardly wait to slice into one of the red-orange globes of deliciousness.  It will be tomato frenzy for about a month.  Eating, juicing, freezing, canning.  And then they're gone for another year.  I can hardly wait.

Oh, yes.  I promised the hubby I would show off his pride and joy this year.  Ghost peppers.

He's on his own with these bad boys!