Veggie Garden in Kenmore

My friend Bliss recently posted a picture of the tomatoes she grew in San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico and it reminded me to check on our own tomatoes.

Having moved to Kenmore from Salem, Oregon in mid-May we had furniture to buy and a household to set up – with little time left for starting a garden. So by the time we got seeds in the ground it was toward the end of June. Late planting, combined with a very rainy June, has resulted in a stunted veggie garden. But we brought 2 "patio" tomato plants with us from Salem and one of them recently gave birth.


I have to laugh. This is the first tomato we harvested. And that’s a regular-sized Red Delicious apple. The tomato was fairly sweet, but it had no seeds. ??


This is the plant it came from. Mike gave all our tomato plants “haircuts” a few weeks ago – he saw a black sort of fungus on the leaves and didn’t want it to spread. In retrospect, we’re not sure that was the best thing to do. But I did harvest the other red tomatoes last night and we ate them with fresh basil from our garden. Again, no seeds in these tomatoes from the patio tomato plant. ??


On the side of our apt building we have a long, narrow garden with the other tomato plants, radishes, green onions, squash and the row of mammoth sunflowers. I just hope we get more sun so we can eat at least one radish and the sunflowers produce big, yellow, happy sunflowers.


In the back yard, we didn’t even dig up the soil. I just planted some pumpkin seeds and they have come to life. Again, we need some sun if we’re going to make jack-o-lanterns with these babies.


We have a small patio outside our dining room and since it’s covered it provides a cool refuge when the sun does come out. And Mike has become quite the expert with the charcoal BBQ. It’s a lot different than using our old gas grill, but he’s got it down.


And here we have 2 tiki light fountains that match the one in the bathroom. That reminds me...where in the world is that Baby Jesus? MIKE!