Garden Update

Remember when we planted a garden back in May? Well here's a little update about how things are growing.

Here's what it looked like in May:

Ok, here is the progress of the Better Boy tomatoes:

May, newly planted

July - growing strong, still cute and small

August 7th - explosive growth

August 7th

August 21st - hide your children

I never expected these tomato plants to grow so terrifyingly huge. It's a monster! It's a similar story with the Roma tomatoes, though they seemed to prefer to grow laterally rather than vertically:

May, newly planted

July, Bearing fruit

August 7th

August 21st

It's pretty amazing to me how well these guys are growing, and it's kind of exciting because we have already gotten some yummy tomatoes from them and there are a ton more green ones getting ready. I'm almost afraid to go pick the tomatoes though because I think if I stick my arm in the middle of that thing I might get eaten alive. As for the rest of our garden, I don't have great pictures but the strawberries are doing well. One of the five plants shot out a runner arm thing and is multiplying into about five more plants.

Yum...?

The peas and beans did well until they got swallowed up between the two sets of tomato plants, but we still managed to get a few yummies off them first:

The Romaine lettuce is doing surprisingly better than I expected, though we planted three rows and only two really came up:

June, those are double or triple in size now

The onions kinda started to grow and then just fizzled out and disappeared. The spinach started growing too, but we planted those too late and they just got scorched to death. Next year I will try some different plants and change up a few things. I want to look into "square foot gardening" where things are planted more compactly instead of in rows. I meant to do that this year but wasn't really sure how. Another downside that I didn't foresee is that once the tomato plants got humongous they blocked the sprinklers that are between the garden bed and the house from spraying the grass, so now all our grass is dead. Oops.

Overall though, I'd say not bad for our first year!