one little tomater

My friends Lauren and Viv were the first to try a cherry tomato from the garden. It was wonderfully sweet and juicy. 


As pictured above, the garden is doing well. The morning glories are taking over from the rope trellis I put around the raised garden bed. I blogged about how to diy here. Can you believe the difference?! The white container hanging off the side is filled with bee-friendly plants (more about that here) and I am happy to relay the success of the bee mix - the bees and butterflies love it! The pak choy is exploding, a few cherry tomatoes are ready to be plucked from the vine, cucumber flowers promise some yummy cukes and then a pic of me (courtesy of Viv) cutting the first cherry tomato to share the first taste. Yum! 

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My friend Viv gave me some gardening stuff that she can't utilize in her new apartment. I hung these little metal ikea "pots" from the edges of my planter boxes packed with wildflower and bee mixes to attract some honey beeeez.

You can tell from the pictures that the morning glories are loving the diy zig zag rope and have wound up the rope since last week. And in the last photograph you can see my cukes have sprouted kitty corner from the husky cherry tomato plant. (Which, by the way, is a midwestern way of saying "catercorner" but really, isn't it just diagonal?!)