Garden Galore

The garden is coming along well. Although we live in a little patch of colder climate (we tend to be a couple weeks behind those who live on the river floodplain), the plants are taking well. The snowpeas, lettuce, spinach, and asparagus have borne us quite a bit of produce already. We praise the Lord for the abundance of spring and summer!

Our strawberry patch holds the promise of many strawberries this year. We got the hot tip that you have to cut the runners in order to get the plants to bear fruit. So we did. In this one photo, you can see one pink strawberry and ten green ones--plus the flower that will become a fruit. Now, we just have to keep the vermin away.

And of course there is the great upside-down tomato project. Here's one of the four posts with the four planted buckets hanging from it.

And here's a close-up of the plants. On each of the plants, the central stem turns upright, going against gravity. However, on each one there's a side-stem that thinks, "OK, you go that way; I'm going to see what happens if I go this way." So the side-stem goes sideways and down, and finds sunlight past the edge of the bucket. I hope the side-stem sends messages to the central stem, so they can get their acts together. Next year's marinara depends on it.
~ emrys