Garden update
Earlier this summer I planted some food-bearing plants and hoped for the best.
I did a half-assed job of mixing in nutrient rich topsoil and some fertilizer. For a long time, it looked like nothing would actually grow. Finally one day I had basil and parsely and mint. Then I had a couple peppers growing early. I plucked one of the peppers and used it in salsa. It wasn’t terribly hot, but it was tasty.
Now I have little green tomatoes sprouting on the vines, and eggplants and a whole mess ‘o jalapeno peppers. The potted plants – banana, hot red, and green peppers are flowering like crazy. It’s amazing! I’m.Growing.Real.Food!
I added some fertilizer to the garden today hoping to give the plants much needed nutrients since I don’t have the luxury of having real “organic fertilizer” trucked into my back yard.
I didn’t have much of a clue when I started this gardening last May, but I feel like I’ve learned a lot. I may never be the master gardener my parents are, but I hope that next year I can have 2 full gardens going filled with delicious fruits and vegetables.
As I start to harvest what I can from the garden, I hope my friends will feel obliged to take some tomatoes, eggplants and peppers because I’ll have more than I know what to do with.
I WANT TOMATOES!!!
I have yet to live in a house long enough to get the things I want inside done and convince Ryan to plant a vegetable garden.
Now we live in Whitetail Deer central in Leesburg and I’m afraid any succulent juicy vegetables I grow will be consumed by the local fauna.
I love tomatoes. All red, and fresh and fragrant and juicy. When you bite into them like an apple, the juice squirts up your nose and into the eye of the person sitting across from you.
I want some.