Keep Them Maters Rolling!

Tomatoes are finally starting to roll in now!

Summer Veggies

My tomatoes have finally started to ripen more and more in the last week or so. This is what greeted me when I arrived home this afternoon... For all you folks in the country, this is how we garden in the city!

Finally!

Finally! One of the big ones has arrived...

Sweet Summertime

I just love the weekends. Waking up when I wake up on my own... not to an alarm clock. A quiet house lit up by the sunlight streaming into the windows... not a dark house while rushing around scrambling to get dressed, get lunches packed, bags packed, finding keys, etc. I just slowly walk around, coffee in hand as I make my way out to the deck to see the best part of all this time of the summer...



Sweet, sweet summertime... the smell of morning, the sounds of nature, the sight of my tomatoes growing on the vine... gotta love it and enjoy it as much as possible now because it will be gone soon enough....

On a side note: I cannot believe that school is already starting back! The schools back home go back this Wednesday the 6th and the ones here in Cobb County start back a week from tomorrow the 11th. That really only means one thing to me: Traffic is back! Yikes.

Farmer Kelly

I eat a lot of salad these days. I eat so much of it that I have a really hard time getting excited about eating it any more. I go through a bi-weekly ritual of making a huge salad that sits in our fridge for lunches, suppers, etc. Well, today's salad was a little different than the usual salad I eat every day for lunch...



What is different you ask? Half of those cherry tomatoes were grown in MY garden!! Yep folks, I am Farmer Kelly... hear me roar! I bet you cannot even guess which ones came out from Wilson Farms vs. those grocery store ones... I should seriously give up this construction management gig and become a vegetable farmer. Any investors interested in donating?

Tomato Update

I checked on my tomato plants after I returned from my trip yesterday. I could not believe my eyes! Some bug or beatle or something has been eating on the leaves of one of my plants. And they ate almost 3/4 of my first big greeen tomato! What a crock. So today we went and got Seven Dust. When I went out to water the plants today I discovered my first almost-ripe cherry tomato... Yippee!

Rainy Days of July

Not to jinx the the flow of goodness, but how crazy has this week been with all of the thunderstorms and RAIN on back-to-back days! I am so happy to get the rain, believe me, but I can definitely do without all the lightening strikes! Not only are they hair-raisingly scary to hear and feel, but they can do some serious damage. Unfortunately, we did not weather this stormy week in July damage-free. Yes, the storm on Monday (which was by far the worst one of this week) managed to fry our garage door motor. Not only will we have to replace the entire set-up, it will cost almost $200! And this is not the first one to be fried for us either! So we cruised up to Home Depot last night after work and researched the price for a new garage door opener. Even with my 10% off coupon I have, it is still going to $180... Bummer. And since we only have one key to the front door, we also had copies made of the key- one Georgia Tech one for me and one UGA one for Hubby (because he thinks he is funny). And wouldn't you know that when we got home, the new keys did not work! Oh well, what is another trip to HD? Just more gas wasted!
One positive note... with all of the rain we have gotten, my tomato plants are really growing!

There are little green tomatoes every where on them... we will be eating tomato sandwiches soon enough..

You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato Too

We planted some tomato plants and herbs a couple of weeks ago. With the rain the past couple of days, the cherry tomato plants are really "running"... they are running so fast that we had to go buy a tomato screen for them and stakes for the big tomato plants too. So today I spent some quality one-on-one time with my tomato plants.... showing the them the correct direction to run and soft-tying them to their supports. I also planted oregano and rosemary to try my green hand at herbs.