Garden Check-In

[bridgetmkennitt]

How is your garden going so far? Is it looking great? Is the weather fighting you or working with you?

Comments

[willidan]

I've got some tomato plants and pepper plants out and they're doing well. I also put some container flower gardens in the front yard and some "mounding" flowers in the front yard. They are struggling a bit, because they face the full sun half the day and I need to get into the habit of watering them every day.

[bridgetmkennitt]

Nomnom tomatoes and peppers. Your garden sounds lovely. Is there a way for the watering to be automated in some way? What about one of those thingys where it's a ball connected to a long thing and you turn it upside down in the ground to water said plant? (I remember seeing them, but for the life of me, I can't remember the name of it).

[willidan]

I do have some. (I call them water balls, I don't know what they're called either.) But when I use them I tend to forget to check that they still have water in them. I can't wait until I have some fresh tomatoes from the garden!

[bridgetmkennitt]

Ohh, that's true. Water balls (hee) need to be refilled.

Yes, fresh tomatoes are great! I have a green tomato on my tomato plant and I keep staring at it, waiting for it to ripen. Grow, my little tomato, I want to eat you.

[willidan]

I've got some green tomatoes that have been green for weeks. My luck, they'll turn red when I have to go out of town in two weeks.