What's at stake?

Tomatoes! Our tomato plants are growing by leaps and bounds. They started outmaybe 3 inches tall and are now 3 FEET tall! A couple of them had started tipping over. I had already taken time to tie the Red Currant tomato to its trellis, but new shoots were starting to sprawl into the rest of the garden. I ended up tying even more of that plant to the trellis. I wonder what it would look like if I didn't take the time to do that... my guess is that it would probably take over a good third of my garden plot!

The heirloom Rainbow Mix tomatoes each needed their own stake. We employed the "reuse" part of "Reduce, reuse, recycle" and chopped up an old trellis to create stakes. Brandon hammered them into the ground and then I tied each tomato plant up. It not only was good for the tomatoes, but it looks cute too. And I discovered the first baby tomatoes on those plants! 

The rest of the garden is growing very quickly as well. I can't get over how huge the zucchini plants are already. Apparently we're "in trouble" with five zucchini plants and will end up having to pay people to take extra zucchini off our hands. 

We also sprinkled fresh compost and worm castings from my worm box. It was the first time I finally had enough compost to use in any practical way. I think the plants really like it too. The pea shoots grew about an inch over night, as did the broccoli... don't even get me started on how much bigger the zucchini are after the compost! 

Baby Acorn Squash, thriving now that's it's been transplanted

Holy Moly- look at that zucchini!

First time using our homemade compost. Yum!

Baby heirloom tomatoes

Everything in the garden is growing and growing!