Vegetable Garden Begins

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tomato plant, vegetable garden

I started our vegetable garden, a tomato plant. Sun, soil, water, and good luck will yield tomatoes in about 3 months.

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Tomato Plants Recovering

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container gardening, tomato plant

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I had lots of problems with my tomato plants this year. Now it looks like they are recovering. This one has fruit on it, another has some flowers that hopefully will become tomatoes.

A Death in the Garden

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garden, tomato plant

A tomato plant that froze. Sad. But I will replant in a couple of weeks.

Tomatoes in the Rain

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az monsoon, garden, tomato plant

Tomatoes in the Rain, originally uploaded by dagnyg.

One of our tomato plants out in the rain. Some of them are very close to ripe.

The purple water wand will not be used today. It rained yesterday morning, and is raining again today. We are getting a nice, steady, slow rain. It’s rare for rain to fall like this in the northern Az mountains. More typically we get short, heavy downbursts. Most of which runs off. This slower, gentler rain will soak into the the earth and be a great gift to all the plants.

This year the Az monsoon (monsoon means “seasonal rain”) has been very productive, lots of moisture. We count on it for much of our annual precipitation. The land has been unusually green this summer. Nice.

Tomatoes From Our Garden

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food production, gardening, tomato plant

Some tomatoes from our garden. We’ve been getting ripe tomatoes every few days. These are wonderful, much better than a store bought tomato!