So with my fishing on hold
for a while I spent some time Friday morning tending to my other hobby,
gardening, in the form of my cherry tomatoes, and peppers.
The wife’s discarded
flower pots with one of my five cherry tomatoes plants. The blooms are just
showing up on this plant. It will produce tomatoes into fall.
This plant is already
producing, amazing what a 2.00 bag of top soil will produce when tomatoes are
involved.
One of two sweet banana pepper
plants that will produce into fall with an amazing amount of pepper yielded.
I thought I would try a
couple of plants in this pot and see if I could double my yield. Both plants
are producing pepper. There isn’t a lot of maintenance that goes into gardening
on this scale, a little liquid miracle grow and water is the ticket.
Muscadines are another food
passion of mine in the fall so I planted a couple just to see if they would
produce in the coming years.
Hey Bill, I don't think that tending to your other hobby will hurt any and I'm a bit jealous. Nothing compares with having a garden. Watch out Bluegill, Bill is still around.
ReplyDeleteBlooming already? Wow. I like the pepper plants, the deer just ate at least a doz of mine earlier this week. I got my gun sighted in, ready to put a .22 short in their rump. Broccoli, peppers, 300 sunflowers, peas, beans, all gone. Did you start from seed?
ReplyDeleteEven though we have 5 acres, we grow all the vege's on the porch. The ground is not conducive to growing anything but trees and the deer can strip any garden in a matter of minutes. Now we pot everything and surround it with 6' fence.
ReplyDeleteBill, I love cherry tomatoes. The Wife and I try to have some pots on our covered patio. Don't have to worry about keeping anything out of the cherry tomatoes except me! This year we have some lettuce growing well, and, some favorable spices, too. Your Garden looks great!
ReplyDeleteHoward
ReplyDeleteI hope to be back on the water tomorrow after the bluegill fishing the rock walls. The spawn is over for this phase. Thanks for the comment
Swamp
ReplyDeleteThe deer eat up everything outside our privacy fence, so the pots are the alternative. Thanks for the comment
Mark
ReplyDeleteThis is my first year to use the pots and from what I can see so far, it is the way to go for small gardening. Thanks for the comment
Mel
ReplyDeleteYes the cherry tomatoes are the best right off the vines with a little salt; might try the lettuce next year. Thanks for the comment
I love fresh tomatoes and have 7 plants. We also have 7 okra plants too. Can't wait to make some salsa.
ReplyDeleteBill, that's a great hobby and the rewards are tasty.
ReplyDeleteI tried this for awhile but wasn't very good at it. I'm much better at growing weeds.
ReplyDeleteJosh
ReplyDeleteHomemade salsa is hard to beat--thanks for the comment
Alan
ReplyDeleteAnother perk of being retired--thanks for the comment
Kevin
ReplyDeleteI was going weeds until I switch to the pots, now much easier to pull the weeds. thanks for the comment
Nothing wrong with putting in some time with your other hobby. Especially, if it produces fresh food for you! Like you said to Josh - "Homemade salsa is hard to beat"
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