Overview 2 "whats growing"

Whats growing?

Whel that changes kind of often around the house.
Quick List:

Tomatoes

• Sarah Black
• Beefsteak Heirloom (my uncle in law's)
• Cherokee Purple
• Green Zebra
• My Fat Cherry (there is story behind this name ill get into later)
• Jubilee
• Unknown Tomatoes being a Topsy Turvy- im testing these contraptions
• White Wonder (all season it has struggled to live, i doubt i will get my one white tomato)

Corn

• Sweet Corn
• Red Sweet Corn

Okra - the seed packet i had just said 'Okra' so that is all i can go on.

Squash

• summer squash (again this is what the packet said)
• Heirloom Lemon Squash
  

Cucumber

• Space master
• Emperor Alexander
• pickling
• cucumber (its what the packet said)

A variety of Hot peppers and Bell pepper. (ranging in all colors)

Eggplant -- what ever the most common North American variety is? assuming 'dark purple' I bought these plants at a farmers market

Ground Cherry - This is my new favorite thing to grow. This year was just a tester but next year I will plant much more of these.

Dwarf: Meyer Lemon, Orange, Lime, and Tangerine

Dwarf 5-on-1 pair tree: Bartlett, Kieffer, Moonglow, Orient and Ayres (this is still small and in a bucket. When i got it in the mail, it was about 24 inches long. I planted it like the instructions tole me to. Then with it came to life all the new growth start from the base. So i have new growth and 24 inch stick in the middle.)

Basil:

• Holi
• Sweet
• Lettuce Leaf
• Thai
• Lemon

Stevia

Prescott fond blanc melon

Oregano

Many of the above are planted multiple times. I am able to squeze all of this down the side of the town house, under the back porch and on top of the back porch. Good news is that soon we are getting a fence put in and then the garden can really spread out.

In the beginning.

This is where it all started.
A 4x3 seed starter container in a windowsill. Not really sure if I had done it correctly or not. By 'done it correctly' I mean seeded the tomatoes from the previous year. You see these seeds were not purchased from a store, rather they were given to me in the form of a tomato the year before.

My wife's uncle had passed away and just before he did he had given me some beefsteak heirloom tomatoes. At least that is what he called them therefore I do not plan on changing the name, even if it might be incorrect. I have always been interested in the process of growing food. Especially from start to finish.

I used Google to search 'How to seed a Tomato and found many results. I picked one and followed the directions. Only I had to wait, from the day I seeded them until the day I planted them to find out if I had done the seeding process correctly. I am not the most patient person so, those 6ish month were a killer. Finally, the time to sow the seeds came. It was around January and I placed 3-4 seeds per slot, added water and covered. Then I had to wait again.


Looking back 2 years ago now, I do not recall how long it took. Success!! I did it correct and up came my first tomatoes grown from seeds that I had taken from a tomato.