Thursday, August 20, 2009

Maybe something about the garden?

It's been all about the baby or the house for a while. How 'bout an update on what's going on in the dirt?
For one thing, tomatoes. We keep them in a planter in the front, or else the squirrels (or is it the stray cats?) get them. But the planter Steve built fell apart. No picture of that, but for a couple weeks the poor things were barely hanging on in what essentially was a three sided supported pile of dirt. Finally, I got a cheapo planter and moved them. Was a bit worried how they'd do, but they seemed to survive ok. We had the red stripey ones last night for dinner (with a backyard cucumber). Delicious!
The plants don't look in the best shape -- pretty scraggly once I stripped off the dead leaves, and lots of yellowing in the rest. But now that it's been in its new pot for week or so, I see new green leaves and some more flowers. Hope!

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