in which I play in the mud

[lolaraincoat]

It was too beautiful a day to go to the gym so instead I left work early and went to the garden center, where just as I hoped, the heirloom tomato plants had arrived. So I spent two hours digging holes, pulling weeds, and hauling sand and sheep manure - and probably got as much exercise as I would have on the elliptical trainer.

So, the tomatoes:

Earliana (2)
Black Prince
Glamour (4, not heirloom, but reliable and tasty)
Black Zebra (2)
Green Zebra (2)
Yellow Pear
Rainbow
Feurwerkes (2)

and one purple tomatillo. Purple!

Other food-type planting so far:

~ herbs, all in place except for some basil I'm growing from seed that's still in pots

~ red cabbage, as an experiment

~ 4 kinds of onion

~ rhubarb, probably about ready to pick

~ apricots

~ figs - maybe this year they'll ripen before the frost, maybe they won't

~ sweet potato vine - I'm not counting on it producing, but it will be pretty

~ lettuces and arugala

~ chard

~ beets

~ sugar snap peas

~ the horrible, eternal grapes of doom

~ strawberries

So that should be it for the year except for maybe some more tomatoes (no, seriously, if I see any Oxheart for sale, I'm putting in two or three of those) and the chiles, of course.

Do you think there might be a prize for most boring lj entry of the week? Because I think that this post might be a serious contender.



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