Remember last month when I said this was my garden?
Well, this is my garden as of July 3:
Yowza. Can you say tomato jungle? Thank you to everyone who gave me good gardening tips! The tomato food worked. In fact, my tomatoes are crowding out everything else — the basil, the little jalapeno I planted:
Yeah, that’s the basil peeking out behind the jalapeno. I don’t know if it’s going to make it, which is too bad, because I use them consistently. I fear I went overboard on tomatoes this year. But I just never have the heart to thin or weed out the ones that self-seeded and survived. The result is I have twenty tomato plants, my oregano has bolted, and the basil might not make it.
I even made a garden annex because I had no room for anything else:
That’s a squash, a banana pepper, and two bell peppers.
Next year, I swear I’ll cut back. I won’t buy any tomatoes until I see what’s coming up. I’ll do a whole annex for just herbs. Meanwhile, I just have to wait until these beauties ripen:
I have had two or three cherry tomatoes so far, but most are still green. Last year I remember I was already harvesting, because we had some of of my tomatoes on the fourth, but I think I got an earlier start last year, too.
I’ll keep y’all posted.
July 4th, 2011 at 9:32 pm
You can plant some basil in a pot – we’ve got a ton now and it grows beautifully there! There’s still time!
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July 4th, 2011 at 9:35 pm
Poor basil and little jalapeno… Well at least they’re still hanging in there now.
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July 5th, 2011 at 6:42 am
Your garden looks lovely. Sorry about the tomatoes taking over, though. I don’t know about over on your side of the country, but out here in CO, harvest is late due to the cooler, wetter spring than we usually have. The old saying that corn should be knee-high by the 4th of July didn’t happen and the wheat’s still in the fields. Your tomatoes will get there. =o)
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