Garden Update- It’s Kickin’ Butt!

I was heading to Publix to shop for a client when I walked out the door and saw the sky. Then noticed the flowers and veggies in that light when it gets real dark right before a storm..you know that deep dark sky with the green leaves looking dark against?

I grabbed the camera, here’s a garden update. As you can see everything is busting loose! So far I have felt like the guy who wrote about spending all his money on growing and months later realized he had a tomatoes that had cost him roughly $65 apiece. Except that I have collected, asked for, bartered for most of what it took me to do. And did all the labor myself with any power tools until I finally bought a drill a few months ago.

Purple Bell Peppers

These are outside my front door, on the circular driveway. They are sub-irrigated containers made from 5 gallon buckets I got from a nearby restaurant,

The tomatoes are hanging by my front door.

These will be purple tomatoes. You can see the garden in the backyard. These tomatoes grew so tall I finally just hung them to the clothesline!

Tomatoes in the foreground, and in the back, The blue barrels have sweet potatoes growing in them;

Swiss chard, watermelon, sweet potatoes, basil,