1st Tomato!!

Lauren picked the 1st 'red' tomato today...it is supposed to be orange and small...a cherry-like tomato...

We had two of them and split them for dinner...good eats...!

take out the grass!

a New major effort in the front yard...removing this large patch of lawn, relocating some bushes and planting new native plants... a mjor WIP...

Awesome fruits of the garden...these lilies were planted in our yard last year after they came off the Easter alter at my Parish...the house smells so good!!

A special thanks to Deacon John L. for being ECO friendly and letting parishioners 're-cycle' these gorgeous plants.

EE's are up in Springfield...

---but not in MP...weird, but understandable ...

Paul--they look great there with the canna ... nice!

Weeds...why?!

L and I spent about an hour on a perfect Sunday summer day...weeding and her catching worms. I filled a refuse bag with weeds from the garden and creeping charlie...

Also planted two more basil and hot pepper plants near the others that did not seem to be doing all that well...noticing lots of green small tomatoes and lots of green vine...where are the fruits!

just now spotting the ee's at about 6" high in the garden...way late!

----weird year for gardening...

July check-in

PIC from last week--L pointing to the one green tomato
...not much blooming here... cone flowers and new black eyed susans...my day lilies are 'sparse'...not sure why...the newly planted pink ones did not bloom this year...maybe next year...
some of the ee's are finally starting to peak out of the ground--way late...have not had to water the garden...plenty of rain...rain barrel still full