How does your garden grow?

[inkinupstamps]

Hi all gardeners! How are your gardens doing? (In particular, the vegetable gardeners.)

WOO HOOO...my first cherry tomatoes are ripening now. I was just out in the garden and couldn't resist picking a warm, ripe, red cherry tomato from the vine and it was WONDERFUL! Just like candy.

My big beef steak tomato plants look great but are not producing fruit! I have no idea why, but the cherry tomatoes are plentiful. The beans are climbing the poles and it looks like it will be a bumper crop. My herbs are fantastic! The peppers are growing but like the tomato plants are questionable how much fruit they'll produce.

Is anyone starting to harvest any produce?

Jennifer

[Christie]

Well all i have this year are jalapenos. I went out a couple of weeks ago and a stupid catapillar had eaten all the leaves and peppers and just left me with sticks.

[mydogstinks2]

My garden is sad, sad, sad... We never got it put in!! There is 1 zucchini plant that cam back from last year. That is doing great and we are not even doing anything with it.

My flowers are doing great!

[iloveflipflops]

I have tomatoes that are getting HUGE but are still green. I have squash coming like crazy. Zucchini is doing good. I get HUGE zucchini. My cukes are very bitter so I end up throwing them all away . My cantelopes are still tiny.

[teabear]

My flower garden is beautiful! It's very small, but I am loving all the birds who visit the pond. Just yesterday I walked outside to see a mama quail and her 10 babies getting a drink! Ahhhh I love the garden. No veggies here, but the flowers are pretty

[cindi]

this year. but mt herbs are doing wondeful. I've been cooking with my fresh thyme, oregano, basil, parsley. my lavender is smelling wonderful & so is my lemon balm. and my mint patch is nice and full. I don't weed my mint or my oregano patches so there is a bunch of talll grass growing in tyhere too...I always birds areond there, kinda a habitat in the city! lol

[inkinupstamps]

this year. but mt herbs are doing wondeful. I've been cooking with my fresh thyme, oregano, basil, parsley. my lavender is smelling wonderful & so is my lemon balm. and my mint patch is nice and full. I don't weed my mint or my oregano patches so there is a bunch of talll grass growing in tyhere too...I always birds areond there, kinda a habitat in the city! lol

Cindi, this is my first year with an herb garden too and I share your excitement with being able to just walk out the door and snip fresh herbs. I've always had a pot of parsley growing but this year we have dill, oregano, parsley, basil (oooohhhh so good!), dill, and some other ones that escape me. Next year I want mint, lemon balm and catnip too!

[cindi]

snip fresh dill & mix it with sour cream & black pepper for a yummy dressing foe cukes!! I love that!

[inkinupstamps]

snip fresh dill & mix it with sour cream & black pepper for a yummy dressing foe cukes!! I love that!

Ooohhh yum! I'll remember this! I bet that mix would be nice on the side of grilled fish too. I always put dill in my tuna.

[cindi]

Ooohhh yum! I'll remember this! I bet that mix would be nice on the side of grilled fish too. I always put dill in my tuna.

that would be yum-o!!