Written By: Jennie Nollette
I hope everyone enjoyed their 4th of July holiday… I sure did! I plan the Fireworks for Kearney so the 3rd was a little busy, but it is always fun knowing at the end of the day we will get to relax and enjoy the fireworks.
We did absolutely nothing on the 4th and it was amazing! Although now I am kicking myself because there is so much to do and I always complain there isn’t enough time. Apparently it is my own fault!
It’s that time when we have picked some veggies & flowers out of our garden; lettuce, potatoes, onions… but now we are just waiting for the other stuff…the good stuff. You know, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, & PUMPKINS!
We are starting to get tiny cucumbers and we have lots of green tomatoes, but nothing is quite ready. This is the part where I have to be patient and know that my patience will soon pay off!
Tiny Cucumber…soon to be tiny pickle (insert dirty joke here) 🙂
I planted a whole bunch of these they are a little slow to come up, but here is the first one to bloom!!
Remember my post on the tomato cages? It feels like just yesterday we put these in the ground. I thought this would be a nice time to update you on how our cages are holding up.
I know I mentioned this before, but just as a recap, we made these cages because we had bad luck with our weak tiny cages last year. We wanted something more durable and I must say we hit the jack pot. They are working beautifully!
Exactly what I wanted. The tomato plants go straight up!
Of course, like with most things, it is never perfect. We did make one teeny tiny error when putting up our tomato cages; we put them a little too close together. I say ‘we’ because I am taking partial blame, although, Brent put some of these up when I wasn’t around. I think he realized he was running out of space so decided to smoosh.
See below and you will know what I am talking about.
Here is the path for us to move around between our tomato plants. Anyone want to help us pick? anyone…anyone…Bueller??….. 🙂
Lastly I will leave you with a picture of our green tomatoes. Don’t fried green tomatoes sound good…yum!!
TURN RED NOW!!
Have a wonderful weekend and happy gardening!
P.S. Have you picked anything from your garden yet?