Happy Independence Day everyone! We’re celebrating by doing what we feel like. For Jack that’s woodworking, for me, knitting, with a little reading and napping thrown in for both of us. If we feel energetic this evening we’ll join the crowds for the fireworks display.
On to the garden report.
Ms. Tomato P has a tomato baby.
I hope we don’t get kicked out of the Garden Along for our meager production, but this was kind of a last minute thing for us. She was almost tossed in the dumpster at the garden center and I almost planted flowers in her pot.
I do have hopes that Ms. Tomato P will pop forth further fruit since she is sporting multiple blossoms. And the rain keeps coming which Ms. Tomato P apparently likes because she’s grown 6 inches in a day or two. And now Norma tells me I need to give her Epsom salts and bone meal and trim her leaves so the little blighter doesn’t get rot. It’s a lot of work being a tomato parent.
I pulled up the lettuce because it was beginning to look sorry from the heat. My volunteer sunflowers were growing like beanstalks and then I lost about half of them to high winds that snapped their stalks. We’ll see if I can nurse along the rest long enough for the seeds to mature and the chickadees to discover them. The torenia growing around their base will finally get enough sun to start growing which is a good thing.
Outside of that, I got a tomato. And herbs growing like weeds. And that’s the garden report for this week.
100 push ups challenge: I’ve completed the first full week. Today I did 6/5/4/3/8 for a total of 26 push ups in the 5 levels. The number of push ups is still so low that it doesn’t take much time. How is your challenge going?
We’ve really had rotten luck with sunflowers here – they don’t like us!
And we planted our tomatoes so late that we haven’t gotten any big ripe ones yet.