Success! Kind of. We had our first ripe tomato which had been picked at in a spot. Darned critters! My wife made a remark about the fact it was ready on Tuesday. So I told her to pick it. She said let's just wait till tomorrow.
Thursday came and I had work. By the time I returned half the tomato was eaten on the vine. The one next to it, which was still green, is missing completely. There's no sign of it anywhere!
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There's the link above to my previous update, which has a link to the one before that. And so on back to the very start of the garden. Take a click trip to see the garden's progress over the last 75 days.
6 Tomato Plants - 4 Varieties
Our two largest Oregon Spring tomato plants had an early start. They're growing quite well and produced the first ripe tomato. You can see it as it deepened in color below.
Sure glad I snapped these pics throughout the week because we never got to enjoy it. See the green one next to the ripe one? It's completely MIA. ???? At least I know my thumb hasn't turned brown.
That tiny tomato above is our very first on two different Super Beefsteak tomato plants. Though small now, it should grow into one of our biggest tomatoes.
Still green but getting close to size are a couple of Red Cherry Tomatoes above. We can't wait to use these in a garden salad with crumbled feta cheese.
The photo above this text shows two Early Treat Hybrid tomatoes on a still small sized plant. No outgrowing the plant allowed, tomatoes!
A side view and look from above this second Oregon Spring plant facing straight down. Both give a different glimpse of the tomatoes growing inside the bushy vegetation.
Our Diseased Zucchini Plants
Three out of five Hybrid Zucchini plants were growing fine, though disease was starting to show. Last week, what appears to be Powdery Mildew spread to almost all the leaves.
Some smaller leaves remain intact on most of the Zucchini plants, but I goofed on the one in the image above. Oops! I cut through the stalk end on accident.
Despite the fact that it may be time to plant something else, we did harvest a couple very nice specimen last week. These two are still sitting in our vegetable bowl waiting to become an ingredient.
Basil & Mint
Sitting adjacent to our tomato plants on the shadier side of the planter is a Mint and a Basil plant. These plants came in the tiniest pots and are now bounding with new growth.
Somehow we've been able to refrain from picking too many mint leaves for our drinks or food. The basil is holding up also cause we haven't done Italian in a while. I have have a feeling the mint plant will start to thin out once all these limes are ripe.
A Key Lime Pie recipe is already in the works and there'll be plenty of Limeade for sure!
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