August 13, 2025 Lots of nice.......

April 27, 2025 Giving you and update.......

May 18, 2024 Rose Buds

April 7, 2024 Walking around the yard........

April 2, 2024 My flowers

My Clever Ways to MANIPULATE Tomatoes to Produce Early, Often, and Nonstop

Lemons

 

And here is another one on a side branch......

 

Here's the one in the last post, a few days older.......and still growing......

Small Lemons

 

Here you see the making of my lemon......am really ready to see how well this fares.

Lemon Tree Blooms

 

Since the weather temps have turned cold, I brought my lemon and lime trees in to protect them.  As you can see the Lemon tree has sprouted blooms.

 

This one opened first and I can't wait to see if it will set fruit and support it.  It had many fruit set back in the summer, but a bad hail storm came along and knocked them all off.  So, since this time they are protected inside, maybe I'll get a few lemons before long.

Veggie Garden

 

Here's another view of my cukes, peas, and tomatoes.

 

And here you see marigolds, beets, squash plants, leaf lettuce, and one left over collard green plant from last year.

Cukes Starting to Produce

 

Just a couple more days and these babies will be on my plate! :)

In Full Bloom

 

From bulbs to this..........just beautiful.........planted 4 years ago! :)

Fresh Veggies

 

I'm sure you can recognize most of these plants.  Some I have been enjoying already.

 

Got to support the tomatoes, cow peas and cukes.........onions mixed in around them.

 

Tomato vine and cukes running up the wire.

 

Blooming tomatoes, and on the left underneath the tomato leaf, Kolrabi is growing......first time to try this one..... :)

My Lilies

 

About 4 years ago, I took the bulbs that were left from a dead lily plant after the Easter season, had gone.  I planted it in a large flower pot.  The first year it came up but only grew the plant.

 

But the second year, the plant grew up large and bloomed, with the other shoot growing at the side.  Now, I have two plants that produce flowers, each year in May.  I noticed that other small shoots are coming through the soil, which means it will give me even more plants in the coming years, as long as it stays healthy.  

Tomato Plants

Two of the tomato plants that I grew from seeds.  I transplanted them from the cup I started them in, and they are doing great.  All of my raised bed garden seems to be doing well.

Lilies Blooming

 

They made it through the storms too and now I have beautiful blooms, in May.

Lilies Budding

 

The bulbs that died after they bloomed were taken and planted in a large flower pot with my gardenia bushes.  This spring they came up and now are growing new blooms.  It seems that when you plant the old bulbs outdoors for the next year's growing season, they wait to bloom until May?  So, they don't make the Easter holiday's time for blooming.  Still I enjoy growing them when other's throw the old plant away.

Peaches

 
I was afraid that when we had that freezing weather, it would cause a problem with the peach trees already in bloom.  But it didn't ruin the peach crop and the weather has been great for plenty of rain, so we should get some good one's this year, if the birds and bees will leave them alone.

Not In Time

Well, this is my "Easter Lilies" coming up, but as usual, when you plant left over bulbs from the year before, it takes longer for them to adjust to the outdoors and soil.  Thus, they won't be ready to bloom until around May.

Iris

 

Here you have one of my spring flowers in full bloom  The white iris seem to always bloom first.  Wonder why that is?