Deck Garden Update

Just got back from (1) Portland, OR--taking Emily home--and (2) Las Cruces, NM--attending a week-long Advanced Placement English Summer Institute, so since I don't have any cute kiddo pictures to post, I thought I would just update everyone on the progress of our deck garden.

Here are a few pictures, beginning with our "upside down" tomato plant experiment. This seems to be working since the leaves grow up and the fruit hangs down which allows lots of sunlight onto the growing fruit. Some of our garden is still recovering from a hailstorm a couple of weeks ago, but at least we weren't wiped out like some of our friends' gardens were.

This picture is of our grape and cherry tomato plants which are also full of fruit, which you can't see very well because of all the foliage.

Get out your magnifying glass and look at our little jalapeno pepper (just above the sprinkler head in the picture). The other little plant is a habenero which is also trying to squeeze out a few little peppers.

These plants are beets. They are growing really quickly, but we may not have actual beets until later in the summer. Hopefully, since they are also cool weather plants, we can have one more crop before our first hard frost which is usually in October.

Finally, here is our Aerogarden (indoors) with its first crop of salad greens. It's amazing how quickly they grow, so we're harvesting this evening so we can have crab cakes on a bed of greens for dinner. Sounds good, huh?