The Gardening Brag Book

thejonesiest · June 2010

I tried to find the old "what are you planting this year?" thread, but couldn't.

I know we have some gardeners amongst us (SweetTea, Veets, I'm looking at you).

I have a huge herb table that has 4 types of mint, 3 types of basil (lemon, sweet and purple), and all of the typical herbs (taragon, sage, cilantro, etc.), and am trying my hand at tomatillos, habaneros, radishes and shallots this year as well.

However, my pride and joy will always be my tomatoes. I have 8 plants going this year in various colors (green, yellow, pink, and black) and sizes and spend time tending to them every day.

I've already got SEVENTY tomatoes out (still green) and I can't wait for them to start turning. It's going to be a very tomato-y summer at Casa de Flexi

So, whatcha planting? How's it going?

MOD NOTE: edited pic embed to make it vurry beeg.

oldfshnd · June 2010

^thank you moddy mod :-)

d_luxx · June 2010

Thats awesome ! Let me know if you need any help eating those tomatoes!

veets · June 2010

I have a front garden and and back garden. The front gets so much sun that it it would be perfect to plant vegetables but I need to get real with that. Harvest time would be for the whole neighborhood so I have not gone that way. I plant flowers that are not "showy". They are low lying and beautiful but not very tall. Echenacia is the exception. I have lots of them and there are people who ring the door bell and ask if they can cut them to make teas or whatever. Most often I say yes.

the back is a shade garden and I have bleeding hearts, fox glove and lots of ground cover that don't require shade. The back is a new garden so I experimenting and I am sure some of what I planted will fail this year but next season I will try something else.

hectord1 · June 2010

Oooh, I never tried to grow echinacea! is it hard to grow?

I also need more shady things - damn squirrels took out these little lavender colored puffy flowers that do well in the shade (I forgot the name). They only took them out of the side garden, not the bigger area where they are also planted. I put them back, they took them out....again and again until they died. They just took them out and "pffft", spit them out right next to where they came from. Little bastards!

Veets - I have had many epic fails in my garden. I'd like to think I am getting better, but sometimes I am not so sure!

Dluxx - I will likely have tons of tomatoes. Last year I only planted 6 plants and a lot of people would get tomatoes when I saw them (my physical therapist, the FedEx guy, LOL).

stooplady · June 2010

Please keep the pics coming...they are great! Thanks.

vkmale · June 2010

WOW! How lovely green tomatoes. I also like eating this kind of vegetables. So while they are still green you need to send them to me to Russia. By the time they will reach me they exactly be ripe and ready to eat.

My address:

Viktor Gusev
Moskovskaja street
dom 82 kv. 26
Penza Penzenskaja 440000
Russian Federation

I`ll be awaiting for these splendiferous tomatoes

harris2010 · June 2010

^ please to send money to my bank account first :-)

alexzello · June 2010

StoopLady wrote: Please keep the pics coming...they are great! Thanks.

oh, there will be pictures! almost as many as my cats

windowbox · June 2010

added a little bit of color today

tyson · June 2010

My first little baby is turning - it's a yellow cherry. I can't wait to eat it :-)

srr · June 2010

Already have eaten 6 "yellow cherry" tomatoes (they are really bright orange rather than lemon colored) and today I got my first red "Early Girl" (with 3 more turning)

altoid · July 2010

I don't care if I am the only one bragging

Flickr changed their page, so let's see if I can post my tomatoes:

wow, it worked!

Big red one = Early Girl, Pink = German Johnson, Yellow = Lemon Boy, Small red = Porterhouse cherry, Dark one = Black Prince. There were also some yellow cherries, but I ate 'em.

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