Tomatoes!

As of last week, all the tomatoes have been planted:

1 Pink Brandywine

1 Green Zebra

1 Yellow Pear

1 Black from Tula

4 Hillbilly Potato Leaf

3 Nygous

As you can see in the left-hand picture, the nursery plants are doing quite well. The Pink Brandywine is already 3' and all have blossoms already.

The seedlings held up to transplanting well. If they're anything like the nursery plants, they be relatively quiet for 7-10 days while they establish roots. After this, fingers crossed, they should spring up quickly!

Nature's Hideous Progeny

Apologies for the radio silence! Chauncey has been a bit under the weather lately and much of his gardening time has been spent trying to outsmart deer who have been grazing in the front yard. An entire bed of day lilies, just about to bloom, was lost in a single night. These flowers must be like deer candy, as there is obviously plenty of other things to eat in the neighborhood. Fortunately, after some research, it seems that Flowering Cherry Trees are "deer resistant." I'm in the process of acquiring such a tree and plan to dig up the rest of the beds when feeling better.

In other pest news, we had a palm-sized visitor in the garden this morning--yes, actually in the fenced-off garden. What could possibly get inside the poultry-wired plot? An 8 ounce bunny, of course! The photo above is a tad on the Loch-Ness-monster side, I realize, but I can assure that Mr. Baby Bun does exist. And, as the second photograph clearly attests, he likes beets. Smart bunny.

Making Strides in the Veggie Garden

With a recent visit from Tundra Gardener and a number of other work-related items keeping me busy, I'm afraid that I've been neglecting the electronic documentation of my real life gardening accident.

Here are some recent shots from the veggie garden. You'll notice that the Pink Brandywine (far right corner), which has the sunniest plot in the garden, is doing quite well and already over 2.5' high.

Doesn't take much sun to bake the clay soil to an unappealing light-reddish brown, but clearly aesthetics are not a priority here. (Well, almost. See subsequent post about Zinnias...)

I'm hoping to plant the heirloom seedlings (above) sometime this week after they have been hardened off. Fingers crossed that its not too late for some productivity!