Grandma's Big Tomato

Grandma writes us often, and we got a new letter from her yesterday with the picture above. The scale shows more than 2 pounds (for just one organic tomato grown in a container garden). The same tomatoe's different poses below.
Yes, we are swimming in tomato right now ;)

underwater gardens

2 weeks in Hawaii and 2 weeks of recovery and we are back in blogging ;)

snorkeling was so amazing... the photos don't do any justice...

I will upload some of our trip photos pretty soon...

And since we came back we are eating tomatoes from our garden if we can get them before the hungry birds! Tomato plants are just humongous!

Horseradish

Introducing our horseradish plant. We use the roots to make hot sauces and just found out that the leaves are edible too... this plant has some huge leaves and it is a perennial... and I just dream of this NPR Cranberry Relish and we do have some cranberries in the fridge!

Mexican Grass

This Mexican grass amazingly made it over the winter and seeding right now. Michael is so excited about it! We pet the grass coming in and out of our garden, hence it resides right at our garden entrance...

dill seeds & beet greens

The yellow little flowers will become the dill seeds, in the background lettuce and mint (which grows like weed)... I hope to dry lots of mint for winter... Have you had "chocolate mint"? It has a darker color and it smells like after eight chocolates, good to use in desserts... hmmm....

These are the beet greens... pretty handsome plant, we chop some in with salad...
It has been pretty hot (upper eighties), and no rain, so I have been watering the garden every night after work & yoga... Last weekend our friend JL put hose wheels for the community garden hoses, wow, what a difference that made! no more dragging that long hose... yeahhh

green tomatoes

Some shots from last night. Tomatoes are doing well. We have 36 tomato plants (thanks Grandma ;) , so many kinds, I will try to list the names soon... and a general shot of the garden below... heavy rains lately made everything grow like crazy... I need to start tying the tomato plants that become so heavy... we put out the lemon and mandarin trees that were in my office back in the garden... we are getting some lemons, yeah... Michael planted the two persimmon trees in the back, I wonder if we will get any persimmons, that would be fantastic... and we planted the beans and black-eyed-peas...

ps: do you see the garlic plant that escaped outside of the fence on the left, so cute!

edible flowers: nasturtiums

Grandma has 3 pots next to her door... green, white and orange... they are all planted with nasturtiums... and I eat a leaf or a flower when I visit her... Nasturtiums are so tasty, bitter like arugula... we planted some in our garden also... some are short, some are climbers, some are speckled, and in many colors: yellow, orange, red, burgundy, etc...