Keshia and Dave's Apartment Garden has been flourishing too. These are our cherry tomato plants. They are about 6 feet tall in this picture... almost 7 feet in a couple of spots. They regularly grow up the bottom of the next window above it, and then flop over because they're too heavy to hold themselves up. They've done this about 3-4 times now... however, they've only done it 1-2 times when I took this picture.
These are some of my herbs: I have, from left top to left bottom, pesto basil, thai basil, (dead sweet basil); middle top to bottom: cilantro (end of season), parsley, cinnamon basil; and on the top right: chives, garlic chives, mint, and to the very far right: walla walla onions and a rose bush. I use grass clippings as mulch to keep the weeds down.
These are our beef steak tomato plants. They look respectable in the picture, but since then, they've grown so big, they're like one huge bush that's threatening taking over the grass. They're so heavy that even my heavy duty cages can't quite hold them up anymore. I've been mildly frustrated with these plants however, because they haven't produced a lot of tomatoes. There's a good chance it's because we failed to prune them regularly. They're also in partial shade.
On the other side of the rose bush, we have our Huge Sunflower coming up!
This is back in our highland garden. Celebrity tomatoes in the middle; winter squashes to the left, and peppers and onions to the right. Far back there on the right are zucchini plants and huge sunflowers.
Dave sporting his hard working self. He does most of the work to make this garden look so good!
We took out the onions this week (July 24th), and planted red potatoes that didn't quite stay cold enough in the cellar this last year. As we were planting them, we realized the roots had already started making baby potatoes! So we popped those off, took them home, and made a tasty soup! It was so Good! Other ingredients are corn, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, onion, grated zucchini, couple bay leaves, and... I might have put in some basil or parsley, or perhaps some red curry paste; cinnamon or a bit of brown sugar. I really don't remember.
Here's my pregnant self, in front of our growing cherry tomatoes!
And the Sunflower is almost about to create its flower!
This is one week's worth of produce (August 11th)! We were so surprised by how many boxes we got, and how amazing it all looked, we had to take a picture!
Produce includes Zucchini, tomatoes, Parsley, cucumbers, banana peppers, bell peppers, cheyenne peppers, blueberries, and anaheim peppers.
Next Blog - - what did I do with all of this stuff?
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