First tomatoes!!

It isn't much but it is our very first tomatoes from the garden this year.

Earlier today, we had a storm. Lots of rain in a short amount of time, heavy winds, and HAIL. I almost cried but it was thankfully small hail and it did not damage our gardens.

Some of the tomato plants got blown over but no casualties there, again thankfully.

My husband and the little guy went out this afternoon to set the plants straight and there were these three ripe (sort of) tomatoes!!

I can't wait for them to start getting ripe.

If you have any good tomato ideas and recipes, please share!!! We love to eat BLT's and this year we have some yummy lettuce. I also love bruschetta, and my husband makes a lot of salsa!!

Fresh tomatoes...

We had an abundance of tomatoes this year.

We had regular tomatoes and Roma's.

My husband made 11 quarts of salsa and I made 9 quarts of tomato sauce to freeze!

We also gave away a ton of tomatoes to family members this year.

We had BLT's a few times too.

There is nothing like a fresh homegrown tomato with dinner.

I can't wait to eat the tomato sauce this winter!!!

The accidental gardener.....

This is my compost pile. That I have been neglecting.

I usually have my husband throw the food into the compost pile and I haven't been back there in a while.

The other day my husband informed me that we have tomatoes growing in the compost pile!!

Imagine that!

They are roma tomatoes and must be from the tomatoes we threw in there last year.

I didn't believe him at first til I went back there and looked.

Sure enough we have compost tomatoes!! They are small and I don't know if they wil even get grown enough before a frost comes, but we'll see!

Garden

This is my Garden today. If you look above the red rake you can see the carrots!


This was the garden in May when it was first planted.



My husband and son also planted carrots and three different colored peppers, plus jalepeno peppers.

The garden seems to be doing well so far even with all the rain and not much sun.

I can't wait for homegrown tomatoes!!!

Tomato Plants!!

My husband took a chance and planted eight tomato plants yesterday!!! Big Boy, Bigger Boy, Beefsteak and Roma.

I can't wait. I am making spaghetti sauce this summer and fresh bruchetta!! And he will make more salsa.

I'll post pics later too when the plants are bigger.