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The herb, tomato, and pepper garden is for our guests. We started the garden in 2008, and the guests have taken excellent care of it!
Garden 3/15/2012
Final harvest December 29, 2011.
Below is partial harvest the day after Christmas, 2011.
June 12, 2011, and our guests are already enjoying ripe tomatoes and peppers in addition to all the herbs .
Here's the beginning of our 2011 garden (Apr 14). Can't see much now, but I'll post again in a couple weeks.
Apr 14: New for 2011 is a little container garden on the top deck just planted....a patio tomato, dill, rosemary,
parsley, cilantro, thyme,
and chives with those as-seen-on-tv watering thingies.
First guest image of the garden. We haven't seen it for 2 weeks, and the tomatoes have grown at least 18 inches. Thanks to John and Sue for the first week's care,and to Melissa for her care and the picture below taken June 5, 2010.
Update July 19, 2009. Bumper crop of hot and sweet peppers and Roma tomatoes, Rutgers, Better Boys, and Beefsteaks are now ripening...YUM!
Cilantro and dill have gone to seed, but I spied about a bazillion teeny volunteer cilantros, and there should be a good crop of volunteer dill coming soon.
Garden June 25 and 26, 2009
Garden May 16, 2009
Garden April 26, 2009
Garden Babies March 31, 2009
Garden Babies February 2009
Herb and Salad Garden for Our Guests as of May 25, 2008
From first harvest June 6, 2008!!
Garden Pics by the Masons on July 12, 2008. Thank you!!!
At the top are the new babies for the 2009 season. I added another garden at the top for the big tomatoes, shovelled out 2 feet of sand and replaced it with Miracle Grow Garden Soil and Moonure. Some will struggle trying to deal with the wind from the east. I'll update the pictures as they grow larger. We're fully rented for the 2009 season, so I won't be able to get down there to water them. We hope our guests will enjoy them enough that they will water them every couple of days. If we have a drought like we did in 2007, the only hope for survival is watering with the hose. I have posted laminated labels for each type of plant for those who may not be familiar with all of the fresh herbs. This garden is for our guests. Please use what you want, harvesting only what you need for the day. When you pick basil leaves, if there are blooms on the plant, please pinch them off. I usually pinch the stems a few leaves below the blossoms for kitchen use. If blossoms are left on the basil plants, their growth will slow and the leaves will not be as tender. Chives will also produce little purple buds that turn into pink flowers. Those leaves that hold the buds will become tough and unusable if they stay on the plant long enough to become flowers. Please pinch of those buds also. Below is a list of most of the plants.