New Discoveries

Eggplant
Blossom

First Tomato on
Early Girl

                                                            Discoveries....

Walking through my garden this morning I found a few very exciting discoveries. First, my Japanese eggplant (Ichiban) developed it's first blossom today. Isn't it beautiful?  Who needs regular flowers anyways. Next up, I found  a tomato forming on my Early Girl plant. Oh my goodness! How exciting is that?! I am glad that I decided to get an Early Girl because they are indeed early producers. 

The tomato isn't the only food coming out of hiding though. I found some peas forming on my pea plant. This was the one that decided to come up on it's own, all my other peas are still little babies.

new pea pod

What's New?

I wanted to make a note about an addition I made to my garden this week. Basically, I added a natural trellis to my garden. I have been playing with some ideas for a trellis to vertically grow watermelon, but I haven't gotten around to it and kinda felt overwhelmed by the project. Nonetheless, I realized that my peas were really taking off and were pretty much grasping the air for something to hold on to, so I got the idea of using some of th branches that I cut down from pruning some bushes around the yard. I really like the natural look and I am curious to see if my pea plants like them as well :)

It is kinda hard to sea, but here is a photo of my new pea "trellis"....

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