Gardening Success

Woohoo! I have picked a grand total of three, yes 3, (THREE!) tomatoes from my tomato plants! That is three more than I have ever gotten before. And I've been trying to garden for nearly two decades now.

Yeah, I'm really, really bad at this. Herbicidal thumb, etc. etc.

But perseverance pays off! I have several more tomatoes on the verge of ripening, I have six bell peppers on my two bell pepper plants and an uncounted number of jalapenos coming right along, and I was even able to give my daughters a bite each today of our very first strawberry ever. We have two more strawberries that should be ripe tomorrow. A strawberry each! Life is good.

All this is due to container gardening. Did you know you can grow anything in a container? Except maybe corn, which tends to get too tall for containers, I have read.

I have just kept plugging away, year after year, and this year (since we're renting) I decided to try a few plants in pots. Well, the peppers and tomatoes took off like crazy, so when I saw a gardening catalog sale of their end of season small berry plants I went ahead and got strawberries, blueberries and raspberries for 75% off. An experienced gardener I know warned me they would all die, but only the blueberries have. (Which was sad. I was really looking forward to fresh blueberries next summer.) The raspberries (a fall-bearing variety) are thriving in their pot and you already know the strawberries are bearing, to my complete shock (I didn't expect to see any fruit until next summer there, too.)

I'm so happy! I have huge plans for next summer. And maybe a fall garden, too. I just need to find out the freeze date around here ...