Harvest Time

In the spring we planted 2 roma tomato plants in pots on the deck. We've never had good luck with plants so we weren't sure what these 2 plants would do. What they did was grow and grow and grow some more. We started finding flowers all over the plants with more blooming each day.

Then in late July we had our 1st reddening tomato. Within days more were reddening and by the last week of July and the first week of August we had handfuls of ripe tomatoes on a near daily basis.
We all had so much fun checking the tomato plants and watching them grow. They were right outside on the deck so we could see them everyday while we ate or were out in the backyard.
As for the rest of the garden-it didn't do so well. We burned our 1st set of peppers with too much Miracle Grow (we bought another plant and we've had some small red peppers), our broccoli plants became rabbit food, and the lettuce and carrots never made it from their planter boxes to bigger pots to grow so they never grew much.
We all had so much fun with our garden this summer and we learned some good lessons for next year-like putting a fence up around the plants before the rabbits find them, and when it comes to Miracle Grow-more isn't always a good thing!