Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Tomato Volunteers

I was out weeding the pepper beds (long overdue) yesterday and suddenly came face to face with a rogue tomato plant. I couldn't believe it at first, but there it was. Then I looked around some more, and found that there were actually 5-two looking pretty large.How awesome is that?! They could be either Roma or Cherry because that's what we grew last year in our little test garden patch. Being lazy paid off after all...

I also pruned all our 'cultivated' tomato plants last night. I hope they do well. I was nervous about cutting on them. We should have little tomato buds soon.Check out this fatty hot pepper. It's about 3 inches long and thicker than a thumb.

AAAAH!! Extreme Closeup!!

My -yes, my--mine, mine, mine -ornamental corn is coming up too. I got impatient with all this wet weather and put some patty pan squash, zucchini, bush beans, and even pole beans in the area along the back fence.

I also found out that something that I assumed was a weed around the place was really a wonderful flower. Of course you know that I don't know the name of it. Don't care. I'm calling it popcorn. Now I know not to pull those again. lol


Ok, that's it for now. Gotta save some for GBBD.

High: 87 Low: 69, sunny; Lunar Phase: Waxing Gibbous, 61% of full.

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Amy said...

How great to get some surprise tomatoes! I'm trying to grow Roma this year, but we'll see how it goes. I'm not sure this summer is going to be hot enough for tomatoes.

Your mystery plant looks like a snapdragon to me.

shala said...

Popcorn! I love it. We had some rogue tomato plants this year too and we didn't even own the house last year so we have no idea what kind they will be. Two of the plants are growing great!

Aunt Debbi/kurts mom said...

I only had one volunteer this year, sigh. Looks like a snap dragon to me too.

John said...

Great blog! Your plants look wonderful. Will be interesting to see how your rogue tomato plant turns out.

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Karen said...

Huh, I envy your tomatoe surprise! :) Pepper looks yummy!

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Jennifer said...

Volunteer tomatoes! What a nice surprise, it will be neat to see if they bear fruit.

I am loving that pepper! It's pretty big! What kind of pepper is it? Looks like a banana or Hungarian Wax to me. Either way, it looks good, I have a big soft spot for hot peppers.

Jean Ann said...

Good for you! I have weeding to do today as well...always find surprises here and there...

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