2009 Garden so far

Here are some pics from the Jayne family garden this year. The garden consists of an 8 x 10 raised bed, 1 topsyturvy tomato planter, and 2 other containers for extra tomato plants. We already had a crop of radishes which I did not replant because I am the only one who will eat them and I did not want that many. We had a nice little crop of carrots and have planted more and have a nice crop of leaf lettuce to keep our salads fresh. Then there is the spinach. It doesn't want to grow. We have about 4 sickly looking little plants that were not even worth taking a picture of. We have 1 sorano pepper plant that has not bloomed yet and a zucchini that is producing nicely. Then there is the green beans. When we first planted the beans a lot of them came up, but a neighborhood cat decided they liked the taste of bean plants and ate all but 3 of the plants. A couple days ago, I harvested our bean crop. I got 4 beans! Riah just ate them raw. Now we planted a bunch more so maybe we will get some later.

We have 6 tomato plants with mixed results on them all.

Here is a tomato in the topsyturvy planter. It started out doing well but now it doesn't look so good. It has a few tomatos on it. Still undecided on these things.

This one started out doing well also, but now has stopped growing and looks sick. It is producing a few tomatos.

This one is in the raised bed and started out slow but is growing nicely now and is putting on a lot of tomatos.

Here is our zucchini plant. It is doing wonderful. We have gotten 1 off it so far and there are a lot of zucchini on it now. You can see our lettuce in the background and if you look closely you can see our pepper plant in the middle. Just past that you can't see our pathetic little spinach plants.

Then there is this poor little tomato plant. It stayed in its little pot for too long and was about dead when we finally planted it. To its credit, it did not die, but the zucchini plant has gotten so big that it covers this little guy up. We don't expect much from this one.

Here is our star performers this year. There is a cherry tomato and a roma tomato plant in this container. They are both about 6 feet tall and producing like crazy. Why can't the rest of the plants do this good. Here is a couple of pics of the tomatos. And by the way, Riah picked out her own cloths today. I am not responsible for that!