TOMATOES!!!!

The tomatoes are coming, the tomatoes are coming!!!!

So many people told me that the yellow flower on Early girl meant that a tomato would appear soon. Aunt A, Aunt T, G-ma, and a nice commenter all said this.

Today I got back in town and went to check on the plants and found this:


Early Girl has about seven flowers, which means we'll have seven or more tomatoes soon. I don't know how soon they will develop into tomatoes but if you know, leave a comment!

Then I checked on the garden plants - Mr. Stripey does not have a flower yet (booooo.) but the second tomato plant does. This, I think, is just a regular hybrid Big Boy.


About four flowers. Two that i'm showing on the bottom and two up top you can barely see that i could not grab while I was holding the camera. The grape tomato plant has no flowers though. I also checked the herb plants:
Sorry for the fuzziness of the photo here. It was very hard for me to get the closeup I wanted to show you and then it turned fuzzy. For some of these garden photos I need to be pulling out our other camera, I realize. How the hell I would upload those photos I do not know b/c it is not digital.

What you see above is dill, which i was concerned about, and it is turning feathery and is actually dill (hallelujah)!

And:

The cilantro is showing two new seedlings (I just planted these on Sunday!) It starts out with two little leaves and then in between the two little leaves sprouts a very identifiable single cilantro leaf. I tried to capture it in this photo and you got a blurry version. More luck next time I guess b/c it is dark and rainy now.

As for the zucchini, take a look. I definitely need to thin to one plant now. It used to be three plants, then I thinned down to two.

So, the zucchini started out with just those two leaves, and now this very identifiable squash-looking leaf is emerging as the third leaf. Verrrry interesting.



The ONE sugar snap pea plant is just beginning to turn into a vine, as you can see! It is next to a fence and it will be able to climb up the fence (a taller fence than the baby chicken wire fence previously shown). However, there are a lot of weeds in between the pea shoot and the fence, and a lot of weeds around the fence. It's still a battle against the weeds!!

I had a great photo of the mesclun greens but the camera died and so I guess it did not take. Here is a bonus wildlife shot from my yard:

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