Well, I'm still trying to figure out this blog thing...I think the blog style we added to the site only allows one photo at a time...which stinks...maybe I'll try to change that. (UPDATE: We've since moved to a Blogger Feed. We'll see how that works...)
In the meantime, here is a picture of one of quite a few tomatoes we have growing in our tomato and cucumber garden this year. We decided to do a small raised bed for tomatoes and cucumbers. With me being pregnant, and the crappiest part of pregnancy coming at the same time as gardening season, we figured a full-blow traditional garden might be more than either of us could handle this year. Most things we can buy at the farmer's market, but tomatoes and cucumbers are kind of daily staples in the summer. Pete rigged up a great little system for tying up tomatoes; thus, we managed to pack 8 plants into a 4X8 space! The varieties, all indeterminates, offer a wide range of tomato types. We're growing Beam's Yellow Pear tomatoes, Italian Heirlooms, Ukranian Purples, and Cherokee Purples, along with two types of cucumbers, Japanese Climbing and Edmonson Whites. We'll see how it all does; it took a long while to get established, but now everything is growing like gangbusters.
Our attempts at a salad table were a bit more of a fail than a win. We're working on the right mixture of planting medium and fertilizer to grow things in it.
Hop over to the garden gallery for more pictures of that project. We'll get there, and I'm still grateful for a spot to cut lettuce without bending over and suffocating myself with a child in the ribs!
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