Happy First Day of Summer!
My little piece of paradise. 
It feels like 98 degrees in the garden this afternoon. It’s been HOT and we’ve had a lot of smoke from the area wildfires on top of the heat. We have managed to get out in the garden a little bit though! The Organicide spray is helping with whatever wilt or bacteria was taking over the garden. We lost the okra & peppers but everything else is looking much better!
We harvested the first of our eggplants & the garden is full of the color purple!
Our two Celebrity tomato bushes have been producing more tomatoes than we know what to do with! I’ve been giving them to friends and neighbors, and even tried making my own sauce in the Crockpot with some of them.
There are more green tomatoes on the plants too. I will have to look into more ways of saving & using them. We’ve had tomatoes with almost every meal this week! hehe
This is how big just one tomato plant has gotten. It has to be at least six feet tall and six feet wide! It is funny how I have failed at growing them for years & then this year has been a stellar crop.
Even the basil is looking good this week. It is something that is hard to grow in humid Florida summers, since it is prone to wilt & disease. It has been a delicious addition to our meals!
I am also happy to report that my avocado plants have recovered. They weren’t getting enough sun & were getting too much water. Now they are looking much healthier & getting big for the containers!
We are looking forward to the break the vegetable gardens give us in July. We have plans to close the composer & solarize the soil once the current veggies finish their cycles.
Happy Gardening!
Posted by Audrey on June 21, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Awesome Bee!! I seem to fight wilt and powder mildew almost every year.
Posted by daisy on July 15, 2011 at 7:41 am
Your eggplant and tomatoes look fantastic? Do you mind sharing where you got the tomato seeds? Thanks!
Posted by Bee Busby on July 18, 2011 at 11:42 pm
Hi Daisy! Thank you!! I got the celebrity tomato plants from a local organic grower. I did not start them from seeds.