How Does Your Garden Grow – June

As was the case when I had a real yard to dig in, I’m a more enthusiastic gardener in May than once the hot weather hits. Even when my garden is within reach of a blasting AC vent, I tend to lose interest a bit.

The lettuce that was doing so well last month got tall and leggy but never full and bushy. We ate it, but never planted any more. The herb garden is doing extremely well, and I’m actually remembering to use the stuff – tossing dill in with new potatoes, mint into iced tea and a big bunch of tarragon into that life-changing strawberry jam. Basil doesn’t hate me anymore, and to honour my bushy basil plant, I think it deserves to go onto a sandwich with some buffalo mozzarella and some awesome prosciutto.

I cannot seem to get past killing the summer savoury – no matter what I do it just won’t grow for me, so I’ll have to raid the old man’s patch when I go home in August. I killed the cilantro early on, but I don’t use it enough to miss it, really.

Ans finally, as evidenced by the image above, the most stupendous garden news is that I have actual tomatoes growing on my plants.

They shouldn’t be there. I’m doing everything wrong. I put 4 starters into one 10″ pot – mostly based on advise from everyone that tomatoes wouldn’t do well inside, and in an east-facing window. I fully expected them to croak and didn’t want to spend the time and money getting more pots. Instead, the largest is almost 6 feet high; all four plants are covered in blossoms; and yes, I have fruit. Six in that image and another three on one of the other plants. They’re just cherry tomatoes so I should be able to harvest them soon.

Now that I know it is possible, I’ll take the tomatoes more seriously next year. Don’t really want to wait until next year, but watching these ones grow makes me cackle with glee on a regular basis.