New Garden Pics! :)

[Lyric]

Woohoo! We'll be harvesting our first tomatoes within a week or two!


The view of our house from across the street.



Tomato plants, taken from above.



The tomato jungle! On the right are banana peppers, purple opal basil, Isis Candy cherry tomato, and a sunflower.



Mmmmm...gonna be eating YOU very soon. :evil cackle:



Sweet Baby Girl cherry tomato plant. My friend Jessi brought me these as seedlings a couple of weeks ago, and they've just exploded with growth.



Monster zucchini leaves ATTACK! :P



My slowest herbs--rosemary and mint. They're coming along, though!



I have so many pots of marigolds that I've been giving them away.



Parsley and basil. I've been thinning these out. The basil should be ready to start harvesting leaves within a week or so. The parsley is close too!



Oregano and chives. We're already eating some of the chives--they're so good when they're young and tender.



Morning glory vines, grown from seeds. They're still babies now, but we'll have flowers in a month or so with luck.



My new JFK rose bush setting flowers, finally. Yay!



Isis Candy cherry tomato plant. This and the SBG will need their own 5-gallon buckets before too long.



Green leaf lettuce, coming on up. It's a bit dirt-spattered from its morning watering, hah.



Extra parsley and basil I have waiting for DU'er leftyclimber to come retrieve.



Blossoming borage--good for making a soothing eyewash and face-cleansing tea.



My Arizona rose bush. So pretty! I got these as babies from the nursery back in late April, and look how pretty they are now.


That's all for now! Will upload more later. Hope your gardens are thriving! :hi:

[nc4bo]

1. Love it!!!!! nt

[beac]

2. Just gorgeous.

:applause:

[hippywife]

3. You are doing a great job!

And obviously having a great time with it. You seem to have a knack for gardening.

Did you move? I love the house!

:hi:

[Lyric]

7. Hey!

Yes, we moved to a rented house less than 5 minutes from campus. The floor rotted and fell out of our old mobile home after it got flooded in the spring of 2009. We lost practically all of our furniture and many of our other things--even now, we're still eating from one of those foldable card tables from Wal-Mart that leftyclimber and mrleftyclimber let us borrow, lol. We definitely love living in an actual house, though.

:hug:

[bvar22]

4. Yum!

Those look beautiful.
What zone are you in?
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AH. I found a clue...Arizona?


We are in West/Central Arkansas, and started out great, but are now struggling due to heat and drought.
We lost our Zucchini yesterday to the Squash Bugs. :(

[Lyric]

6. Actually I'm in West Virginia!

Although I'm very curious as to what made you think it was Arizona, lol.

:hi:

[WhiteTara]

9. I lost almost everything to the deer

here in NW Arkansas. But the today's rain is going to give the landscaping a fighting chance and I'm taking this sad turn of events as the spur to create my fall/winter garden. I should be able to harvest cabbage and broccoli until December and lettuce until the first frost. I'm also getting interim deer netting until I can build a fence. poco e poco.

[NJCher]

5. Nice job, Lyric

I always enjoy seeing pics of other people's gardens.

Your rose bush looks really healthy!


Cher

[Lyric]

8. That pic was from months ago, but we got LOTS of roses.

It amazed me how much they grew! We still have lots of developing buds, and we've had at least 30 blooms from each bush--pretty awesome considering how young and small they were when we planted them. Both of them are tall and bushy now--we keep having to prune the Arizona back because it's determined to grow taller than the porch, lol.

:hi:

[txlibdem]

10. I have a container garden this year as well

/Edited to add: Your garden looks fantastic. I am jealous. So jealous.

The smaller containers dry out far too easily. I repurposed 3 cat litter buckets (bell pepper) and had a couple of 3 gallons and one 5 gallon (tomatoes) as well as 8 3-gal grow bags for bush beans and cucumbers.

In the Texas heat I need to watch them like a hawk so they don't dry out. And now the leaf munchers are out in force again.