Kate's Urban Farm

My tomatoes grow wild!

Haven't posted in a long time. Growing peppers and tomatoes mostly this year as I decided to go back to school. These cute peppers are called Candy acne Red Sweet chili. They are super neat and even the leaves have white stripes.

Got a second dog today. Her name is Kluane

Beautiful sunflower arrangement from the sunflowers I grew. End of a gardening season.

Chopping lots and lots of beets for beet borscht. I plan on trying my pressure canner for the first time today.

I have never ever seen a cicumber like this. It's two cucumbers, fused in the middle. It only has one vine connection so I assume it's from one flower, but wow!

A picture of my harvest so far. If enough cherry tomatoes ripen over the next day or so I am going to try canning them all together whole. The cucumbers are becoming either refrigerator pickles or bread and butter or even perhaps sandwich slices for my husband's Nashville hot chicken sandwiches that he cooks! And one little pepper to chare eith the kids.

Finally turning red! Can't wait for more to follow suit.

Even growing these babies wild, I sure am getting loads of tomatoes. This is just one branch of many like this.

I've got my kids out helping out with planting our beans and peas. A little late in the season, but better late than never!

All the tomatoes so far that I found in my tomato forest

Tomato flowers!

These lovely white blooms of the may tree tell its finally summer! The fragrance is so lovely!

It amazes me how they can produce a plant that actually smells like chocolate mint. Kids said it smells like girl guide thin mint cookies and they aren't wrong. We also saw orange mint that had a citrus undertone and a grapefruit one which really smelled like grapefruit!

Today I will be moving three yards of dirt from there to into the gardens after pulling the last of the dandelions out. It is a mix soil of screened soil along with aged manure from our local landscaping supplier. I have grown some beautiful tomatoes in the soil from them over the last couple years.

Transplanting my Big Thai peppers and look at those strong, healthy roots. Super proud of them.

These are sure turning out beautiful.

Can't wait to get these planted again this summer. These sunflowers were huge and bees and butterflies loved them so much. Of course once there were seeds a squirrel made off with a whole head. Chewed it right off the stem.

Rosemary is doing well. You can see the smooth, round leaves. That little bit of fuzz on the leaves is so nice. Already very fragrant when you touch it too.

The parsley has their distinct leaf pattern now. Might be an herbs sharing kind of day today as every herbal seems to be doing well... except the mint. Of course. Need that to grow better to add to the Indian food I cook.

The cabbage plants are working hard. I have 10 plants and hoping for at least a couple big cabbages.

Maybe some will be saurkraut, some will definitely become borscht and maybe just some lovely fried cab age. Mmmmm. Yummy!