In spite of the heat and humidity this morning (man, it smacked me in the face when I walked out to the deck!), I had to go outside and water flowers and the veggie patch, plus fill the birdbaths for our feathered friends. So, naturally, I brought my camera to document the progress of the baby veggies.
Most of the first photos I took turned out rather dull because it was so overcast. But suddenly the sun popped out so I ran back outside with my camera and got a few good pics. As always, my sweet little fur girl was right beside me every step of the way.
Isn't it wonderful using a digital camera? You can take as many pics as you like, upload them in seconds to your computer, and simply delete the ones you don’t like. Spectacular!
Here’s a shot of the whole veggie patch. The plants are really growing! Tomatoes are on both ends, the green and yellow peppers are the short guys in the middle, and the acorn squash is outside of the wood box on the left since we wanted it to have plenty of room to spread.
Ever since Patty told me to give the squash lots of water it’s been growing like a weed! And no more brown-edged leaves, either.
This is the first time we planted squash and the flowers are so pretty. It looks like there are several more flower buds below this big one. Little Mommie, you’ll have lots of squash this winter!
I’m guessing that each of these little buds will be green peppers, right? Don’t you just love the way the water droplets look on the leaves? These aren’t morning fairy gems, they’re from my watering. I figured the plants would like a cool morning shower and I swear I heard teeny tiny little high-pitched voices saying “thank-you, thank-you” as I sprinkled.
And I certainly hope I get more than this one Roma tomato! She seems to be hogging the spotlight on this plant but I had a little talk with her this morning and told her to be more sociable.
Here are the yellow peppers. It’s amazing to see how much growth there is from day to day.
These baby cherry tomatoes are just so darn cute! You can tell just how tiny they are by comparing them to the white kitchen twine I used to tie up the plants. That’s the same twine I use to truss my chickens for the rotisserie and it sure has come in handy. I wanted to stake each plant with the method I found online: you insert 5 tall dowels around each plant and wrap twine in the the shape of a 5-point star around the dowels wherever you need to for stem support. But Chris was convinced the plants would ‘climb’ the heavy garden twine he suspended above the plants. I voted for the dowel method but he disagreed and you know how that one ended, ha ha! So I simply grab my kitchen twine and a pair of scissors when I go out to water the garden.
The end. (This frog-dog shot’s for you, Patty!)
