First Signs of Tomatoes!

The first buds of tomatoes are forming! These formed on one of my three cherry tomato plants! I can't wait for the sweet little tomatoes! 

8/7/13 Harvest!

Blueberries, blackberries and cherry tomatoes!  

Today's Harvest! 7-21-13

Today was the first day I can say I really harvested anything from my garden because there was actually a variety if stuff to grab! I picked blueberries from two blueberry bushes, I picked a couple of  blackberries, a few Juliet tomatoes an a few cherry tomatoes! 

Totals: 

6 Blackberries 

3 Juliet Tomatoes 

2 cherry Tomatoes 

8 Blueberries 

It's not much but with a very rainy June and now a very hot July  I'm lucky most o my plants are still alive! 

First tomato of the season! 7/19/13

First ripe tomato of the year is a deformed cherry tomato! It's been a tough spring for my tomato plants with way too much rain!  Also picked a handful of blueberries and a blackberry!  Harvests should become more frequent and plentiful as the month goes on! 

Planting Tomatoes! 5/17/13

The first thing I planted once the garden was ready was the tomatoes.  This year I purchased a few more plants than last year.  This year I got 8 tomato plants, all indeterminate.  However one tomato plant had two plants in the pot, so I actually ended up with 9!  Which is perfect because I made 3 rows of 3 tomato plants.  I got 2 Husky Red Cherry Tomato plants.  I had this variety last year but only one plant and it did amazing, producing tomatoes into October!  I also got a third cherry tomato plant called 'Super Sweet 100' Hybrid Cherry Tomato.  The most interesting tomato plant I got was the 'Yellow Pear' tomato, I can't wait to see and taste those!  Then I got a Big Beef Hybrid Tomato plant, a 'Red Beefsteak' Tomato plant.  Another interesting tomato plant I got was one called 'Mr Stripey', an heirloom tomato which has yellow and red stripes and supposedly produces tomatoes up to 1 pound each!!  The last tomato variety escapes me right now but it is also the one that came with an extra tomato plant making my grand total of 9 plants!  I will be swimming in tomatoes this year!  Hopefully I will be able to crush and freeze some tomatoes to make chili in the fall and winter!  

Eve of a Crop Killing Freeze: final harvest? 10/12/12

Harvest on the eve of the first freeze:
(Many tomatoes are not ripe yet!)
7 green Heirloom tomatoes
2 Hot Cherry Peppers
3 Green Marion Tomatoes
1 tiny Japanese eggplant
1 small sweet pepper
18 cherry tomatoes (green)
29 Juliet Tomatoes

Harvest 10/10/12 Last of the hot peppers!

Today's harvest:
5 Hot Peppers
2 Juliet Tomatoes
2 Cherry Tomatoes
1 Marion tomato
1 Big Boy tomato

Harvest before cold front 10/6/12

Today's Harvest:
3 cherry tomatoes
2 Juliet tomatoes
1 Japanese Eggplant
1 Sweet Pepper

Handful of Tomatoes! 10/3/12

Today's Harvest:
2 Cherry Tomatoes
4 Juliet Tomatoes

Harvest 9/27/12

Today's Harvest:
2 Japanese Eggplants
2 Juliet Tomatoes
1 Cherry Tomato
1 Big Boy Tomato

More Tomatoes! Harvest 9/24/12

The tomato plants are still spitting out tomatoes but they're starting to look ragged, probably due to the chilly nights lately. The low temperature has been consistently in the lower 50's and upper 40's the last two weeks

Today's Harvest:
7 cherry tomatoes
4 Juliet tomatoes
1 Big Boy Tomato

Small harvest 9/20/12

Today's Harvest:
9 Cherry Tomatoes
3 Hot Peppers
1 Juliet Tomato

Windy Tomato Harvest 9/18/12

A tornado watch in effect with a wind advisory I decided to grab some tomatoes before the wind did!

Today's harvest:
2 Juliet tomatoes
13 cherry tomatoes

Tomato Harvest 9/17/12

Today's Harvest
1 Juliet tomato
1 Marion tomato
9 cherry tomatoes

Harvest 9/15/12

Today's Harvest:
1 Heirloom tomato
1 cucumber
3 Juliet tomatoes
4 cherry tomatoes
5 Hot Peppers

Large & colorful late season harvest! 9/7/12

Today's harvest was larger than I expected and very colorful! I got to pick another eggplant and harvested the first garden beans of the season! If you read back to some of my first posts, you'll see that I planted the beans late, add in the hot dry weather and they didn't do as well as other years.

Today's harvest:
1 Japanese eggplant
1 Red Hot Cherry Pepper
1 cucumber
4 Juliet Tomatoes
5 Cherry tomatoes
6 hot peppers
58 garden beans (small)

Harvest 9/4/12

Today's harvest:
1 Marion tomato
4 hot peppers
1 cucumber
1 red hot cherry pepper
3 Juliet tomatoes
4 cherry tomatoes

Small harvest 9/2/12

Harvest are continuing to get smaller but I'm also happy I'm still getting anything! Since the end if July I have been able to harvest something from my garden almost everyday if not every other day! I consider this an accomplishment, especially compared to past years!!

Today's Harvest:
1 cucumber
1 cherry tomato
1 heirloom tomato
3 Juliet tomatoes

Harvest 8/28/12

The harvest are starting to spread out as the summer wanes...but still getting plenty of hot peppers!

Today's harvest:
1 Big Boy Tomato
1 Cherry Tomato
3 cucumbers
9 Hot peppers

Harvest 8/25/12

Today's Harvest:

2 cucumbers
1 Big Boy Tomato
4 Cherry Tomatoes
14 Hot Peppers