This year I am able to actually have a garden with plants in the ground and not in plastic 5-gallon buckets. Below is my first attempt at growing anything edible:
This was at the end of the summer in Las Cruces, New Mexico after a hail/thunderstorm at either the end of September or in early October. I also think there were tornado warnings. Anyway, I think my two plants produced 2 small tomatoes and a handful of cherry tomatoes. I blame too much heat, not enough water, bad soil, and not enough fertilizer for my low crop yield. Oops.
This summer, I kind of went out of control at the garden center. I ended up getting 5 tomato varieties (20 plants, but 8 were given to someone else), 4 bell pepper plants, two eggplants (one regular and one Japanese variety), and cucumbers. Here is the garden when everything was first planted:
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| Tomatoes |
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| Peppers and Eggplant |
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I was able to put everything in the ground at the beginning of April. Here is what everything looks like around one month later:
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| Tomatoes growing! AND they're flowering! |
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| Shadow self portrait! Eggplant in foreground, peppers in background. They're getting ready to flower! | | |
I'm hoping to make lots of gazpacho, tomato salads, and BLT's this summer. I'll keep you posted :).
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