MY GARDEN SO FAR ....

I know ... every year I show you photos of my artichokes. These plants are so amazing. I started with little two plants from my friend Jean. One didn't make it. The last couple years I had two plants ... and this year there are three! Here are photos just before I cut off the two largest artichokes.

I planted ten tomato plants a month ago (my reasoning is "something always happens ..."), as well as zucchini and cucumber plants. I have a few green tomatoes on almost every plant, so things are looking promising for BLTs and sharing tomatoes with friends.

Weird Looking Tomatoes!

My gardener took out at least a dozen oleander bushes in my back yard this summer because half of them were dying. All my neighbors have the same problem. So now there was an empty strip of ground along a sunny wall that I decided would be great for vegetables. I dug an area long enough for two tomato plants, sifted out the rocks and added good soil amendments and fertilizer. Then planted two tomato plants. I don't have the tags for them, but they were normal plants like Better Boy, and they were both the same. The plants definitely liked the soil and the warmth of the wall and now have grown higher than their cages. However, the tomatoes on one plant are normal looking, but the other plant has weird looking tomatoes. I think THEY think they are tomato pumpkins! I picked a few today and had to share them with you. It's definitely better than sharing with the scavengers who come out at night!  By the way, the tomato in the back is a "normal" one from the other plant! Here's the photo. What do you think? Tomato pumpkins?