June 14: the veggies

I have identified a problem with having a garden blog, which is that when it's warm and things are growing and I have stuff to blog about, I don't really have time to post because I'm in my garden. Go figure. But there ARE some things growing in my yard at last, so here I am (at last).

The very first tomato to bloom, a Sweet Tumbler in a pot on my stoop. I gave an audible squeal of delight when I spotted it.

The biggest Bloody Butcher tomato plant. It is looking pretty healthy, also. When the seedling had a few true leaves, I planted it straight into this big pot and it has been growing happily in there ever since (on a bed of potting soil and styrofoam packing peanuts, so the pot is still light enough to lift). It was VERY spindly when I moved it outside, but it has filled out nicely, like that nerdy platonic friend from junior high.

Peas, growing like gangbusters. What is a gangbuster, anyway? That sounds like something I could be successful at growing in my garden. Presumably they're not too hard to start from seed. You could say they grow like peas.

James and I finally got the last raised bed built and stained. It's planted with snapdragons (along the left side), succulents (along the right side), and 2 Jimmy Nardello peppers. It's in a corner of the yard where it just COOKS during the day. I hope the peppers flourish there. Yep, those are blue plastic bendy straws holding up the tender pepper plants. I roll like that.

The other vegetables that are growing from seed are also starting to poke their little heads up, including onions and scallions. I just planted some lettuce last weekend--it should have been in the ground much earlier, but I decided better late than never. All my seedlings are in the ground, almost, except for a stray watermelon (I have no space for it and may put it in a pot) and a single hybrid zucchini (which I BOUGHT after my hybrids perished in the cold weather earlier). Still to come, some day when it's raining: flowers!