Tomato Monday...

Got a couple of pictures to share of our first two tomato plants ( we bought 2 more since these) and one planter of our strawberries ( we have 2). I took a couple of the vegetables in the planter but they've grown since I took them so I'll wait and take another picture. I've seen one squash starting to grow, that's one more than I was able to grow in Alabama...ha. They would bloom but never made a squash.

These are the celebrity tomatoes

This is the Roma's. It is loaded down with them.

One planter of strawberries. A bird got my first strawberry before I did...

I don't think the tomato plants have grown any taller since they put on all the tomatoes.

Thanks for the Mother's Day wishes. I hope all the Mothers out there had a great day.

Take care,

Sheila

In memory of Mr. Ray 'Dad' White...

I just wanted to pay a little tribute to Mr. Ray 'Dad' White (http://tomatogardeningwithdad.blogspot.com/). He passed away on Wednesday May 9th at 98 years old. He was a sweet man, who loved the Lord, his family, his friends and his blogging family. He also loved his garden, especially his tomatoes and roses.

I wouldn't have known about this blogging community if it wasn't for Mr. White. Around October of 2005, our local paper in Mobile, AL had a story on 'Dad, America's oldest blogger'. This was back when it was still AOL Journals. I started reading his journal and from his journal I found others. Then, they shut down AOL journals and the ones who still wanted to blog moved mostly to blogger. I didn't decide to give it a try until after it moved to blogger. So thank you Mr. White for introducing me to this blogger world and all the wonderful friends I have made here.

Rest in Peace 'Dad'

We'll miss you.

Sheila

Plants, plants and more plants...

I waited a day later to post my last entry so I could take a picture of the Broom shrub. I went out that day to water the tomatoes, bell peppers, blueberries and everything else that needed watering, and I put my arm down on the top of the deck rail. When I moved to water something else I noticed that area was burning.....I looked and I had picked up a boat load of splinters...well maybe not a boat load but a lot. Thankfully, later on, my new favorite daughter Cori...ha... picked them out for me.

This past weekend the project was building a raised planting bed. Hubby got to use his new drills again (Jack they're Makita's). So now we have more vegetables growing. More bell peppers, squash, zucchini, cucumber, onions, parsley, purple brussel sprouts, eggplant, watermelon, cantaloupe and strawberries. I may have left something out, but that is all I could think of off the top of my head. I think I will get a couple of jalepeno plants. We got the broom shrub planted and he bought two dwarf azaleas. Maybe that is all for now...

Take care,
Sheila

April showers bring May flowers...

Hello, hello, hello! We are still here. Hubby is still in a little bit of a plant buying frenzy. A couple of purple fountain grasses (actually my request, if he seen any), a couple of fireworks fountain grasses (red), a couple more tomato plants, and another hibiscus and some type of evergreen shrub. We decided to put the two large blueberry bushes we bought in large planters and put closer to the deck. We put the purple fountain grass where we had the blueberries.

 This is the evergreen shrub called broom.

Don't know where we're going to plant it yet.

We hired someone to cut our grass, but the last time they cut it they scalped our grass in a few places (they sent a different guy with a different lawn mower). So Hubby decided to start cutting it again. I've been doing the trimming while he does the cutting. I think he was hoping the lawn mower wouldn't work so he could buy a new one...ha. It had been in storage almost two years, but he added gas and a little oil and I pressed the primer butter a few times. He went to put something up in the garage and I asked him if he wanted me to try to crank it. He said yeah, so I pulled the cord and it started the first time...ha. We were both a little surprised that it did. But so far it has been working like a charm.

Thanks for the birthday wishes! Mine was the 12th and Cori's was the 21st. She is 19 now, I'm only two years older...ha.

Take care, Sheila