Mission Accomplished

Well, the garden is officially up and running. We spent hours and hours in it today, pulling weeds, laying plastic, planting tomatoes. It looks so nice now. There are four rows, three are just tomatoes. 8 Amish Paste, 6 Bloody Butchers, 3 Large Red Cherry, and 1 Riesentraube cherry. Plus we planted 10 of the mystery tomatoes that are probably Giant Delicious but 3 or 4 might be Romas. We've also got some Cherokee Purple tomatoes, but they were too fragile to put out today.

Besides tomatoes, we have all kinds of lettuce and about a dozen cucumber plants. That's it so far, but tomorrow I'm planting broccoli and cauliflower, green beans, basil, dill, and cilantro. I have a couple of peppers I could probably plant tomorrow, and maybe I'll plant a little okra just for shits and grins. I've got a bunch of rosemary but they're not big enough to plant yet. I did have some strawberry babies, but they dried out. Only 1 survived, but I have plenty more seeds to replace them with. Of course, I didn't have any idea where I was going to plant them, so I'm not in a hurry to plant any more.

A week or so ago I planted a flat full of sunflowers and a bunch of pumpkins, cantaloupes, and watermelons for my brother to put in down at his club house. I never heard of anybody starting sunflowers indoors & transplanting them, but Brandon said whenever he tries planting them outside the squirrels or birds or somebody digs them right up & eats them before they have a chance to sprout. The sunflowers popped right up. The melons and pumpkins took longer, but they're coming up now. The pumpkin seeds are so big it's like a little earthquake in the pot when they come up.

I'm thinking about planting one of the pumpkins & a couple of the cantaloupes & a couple of the watermelons up here. Sort of a service charge for getting them started. I think that would pretty much finish up the garden. There isn't any room for any more.