Our Tomato Plants

Okay, I am a total looser, but I have to show off my tomato plants. I have never in my life had so much success growing tomatoes. I have tried since Brad and I were married to grow a small garden. Unfortunately we never got much from my pathetic attempts, but this year I decided to try something different with my tomatoes. I took old laundry detergent buckets and drilled four or five small holes in the bottoms. I then placed a couple of rocks around the holes so I knew they could drain excess water out. I finished them off by adding good garden soil with a 6 month fertilizer in it and planted the tomato plants. I wish I would have taken a picture of the plants when I first planted them. They were only 6" tall at best. We always spend Mother's Day weekend planting flowers and other plants. So you can see that these plants were not planted really early. They have done wonderful. I have not seen any other tomatoes that are even close to the size of my plants. Even my Mom, who always has a great garden, doesn't have plants that look like mine. Just check them out.


Look close and you can see all the blossoms.


Look at how big my tomatoes already are!


Shortly after I planted my tomatoes, my neighbors (The Randall's) gave me a watermelon plant. I had a bag of soil left so I thought I would plant it in a container too. It seemed to be taking its sweet time growing, but my Mom told me that melons do that. Then all of a sudden it too has taken off. I am so hoping that we get a few watermelons. I'll keep you posted. Here is a picture of our little watermelon plant too.


I have this little gardener inside of me that so wants to find it's way out. For some reason I can't seem to figure it all out. I am hoping that my plants continue to do well so I have some encouragement to keep trying. I do have to say, so far so good this year. I love seeing something coming out of hard work.