A Summer Bounty

Earlier in the year I wrote about starting a garden in my apartment. The plants consisted of tomatoes, habanero and jalapeno peppers, tomatillo and a variety of spices. Originally thinking that I wouldn't succeed in growing anything, I had an over abundance of plants all over my apartment. I gave away many tomato plants, and moved my garden from inside my apartment to the side of my boyfriends house. Once moved, the garden had 6 tomato plants, 1 tomatillo, 1 habanero, 1 jalapeno ,1 giant basil plant, and a few other herbs. Because this is my first real attempt at growing food, I'm really just happy to have produced anything, even if what came out of the ground isn't exactly what I had hoped for.



This is about what I'm getting off my plants every couple of weeks. Cute little tasty tomatoes. My original plan was to grow enough tomatoes that I could make and can my own tomato sauce for winter. I'm still quite happy with the result though. The oval shaped tomatoes are Roma, both the little yellow tomatoes and the mixed green and red came from rainbow tomato seeds, and the rounder tomatoes are Red Siberian.

My little hot pepper plants are still growing, both have a few little peppers on them. The basil didn't quite make it in the heat, and the tomatillo is making a last sprint at growing before fall hits us. I've had a lot of fun planning and growing my plants, especially seeing them grow from seeds. I will definitely do this again next year, hopefully with slightly better results.