New in the Nursery

So here's nature at work. I cut back all my old tomato plants and look what I found below them - brand new tomato babies! I guess an unpicked tomato deposited its seeds in the planter and nature went to work. I'm so excited that I'll be having another crop of tomatoes.

And here are my cheap-o parsley seeds from Target. They're actually growing. I'll have fancy garnish in no time!

The wonders of my garden

oh how I have missed

all the little seedlings

growing in their bliss!

Alternative Ending

Well, my tomatoes have come to an end. These are the last few that were on the vine, so I picked them off before cutting back all the plants to the core. They had a good run. Six months for tomato vines is pretty good. At first I felt a little sad that they were done but then I felt this wave of excitement that now I can start something new - anything I choose, including new tomatoes if I wish. Endings can be sad but sometimes an ending is just really an exciting beginning to something else. So that was my garden lesson for the day. I suppose it goes along with, "When God closes a door, he opens a window." So here I am at the window, looking out and feeling glad instead of sad.

Will keep you posted on my new developments.

Goodbye to this Spring's garden

Hello to Summer one

Such fun we had unburdened

Now to work in the sun!

Remeber Me?

I know, I've been gone so long you were beginning to think I wasn't going to write anymore! Things here have been pretty busy but I think maybe this month will finally be back to my normal life. My six-month-old garden is beginning to decline a bit, partly due to my neglect in the last couple of weeks, but mostly due to age and all the rain, rain, rain, rain! My pretty rain chain is doing its job, guiding all that wonderful water into my rain barrel.

Tomato plants are about done, so I'm getting ready to cut off some shoots and bury them for a second go-around, although I imagine the fungus will be fierce now. Pepper plants are still going strong, although I have way too many of them. Next year I think I'll plant two instead of four. Chives are in love with their spot and are still looking good. Tarragon is beginning to decline and mint is still fighting that strange disease/bug this year, although it continues to grow. After all, things have to be really terrible to kill off the mint! Strawberries seem done for now, though the plants are still proliferating and hopefully will keep spreading and growing for next season's harvest. The new babies are parsley. Will keep you posted on how they come along. I sowed those seeds in the window box a couple weeks ago, so will see how they do. The seeds were from the Target $1.00 section so I'm curious about their quality. I am thinking I'd like to plant some lettuce and garlic, but I have to check on the Florida growing schedule for those. Hopefully I'll be back out in the garden soon. At least when it's raining it's not 95 degrees (only 90!).

Anyway...

Thanks for checking back on me

No, I wasn't attacked by the bees

I've really just been busy so

I'm constantly on the go, go, go!