tomatoes in may

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Before I get to the garden photos, welcome to the new blog url! Yay, woohoo, streamers, and balloons! though I hope that the move was for the most part seamless and that you didn’t even notice (except for updating your RSS feed).

On to the greenery, sweet cherry tomato.

Green zebra, my favorite this year.

Tomatoes, three Buddha, a bee, and a peek at our new AC unit.

Planted a lemon balm after none of the seeds germinated.

I went lemon crazy and got some Lemon Grass, my cat LOVES to chew on this. Now I have to learn to cook with it.

Did I mention that I went lemon crazy? Lemon basil, Mrs. Burns.

I saw mexican oregano in other people’s gardens and I fell in love. I got this one and it started blooming right away.

I picked up another oregano but it didn’t have a tag. I thought it was Greek Oregano, but now I’m not sure, it grows very low to the grown with fuzzy leaves. I’ll post a better photo of it soon.

I admired Black and Blue salvia for a while, David picked it out, I was glad. It’s been blooming all over, and we’ve been spotting several different types of butterflies in the garden recently.

I had some catnip that I placed in a large pot (next to the bee, next to the Black and Blue salvia) and it’s been stunted. It hasn’t died or grown, for months! I don’t know what to do with it. Instead, I bought another and it’s been growing great, my darling cat is happy now.

Pretty shot of the sweet potato vine Blackie.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, June 13th, 2010 at 9:26 pm and is filed under garden, MrDavidPoe, our house, photos, tina illustrates.

5 Responses to “tomatoes in may”

1. Annie in Austin
   9:24 am on June 14th, 2010

   The header picture is wonderful, Tina!

   We’re getting some Sun Gold and Solar Fire tomatoes but something killed the Green Zebra plant about a month ago. You make this variety sound so good we’ll have to try to grow it again.

   Mexican oregano makes such a nice shrub, doesn’t it? We sometimes see hummingbirds on our ‘Black & Blue’ salvia which is fun. I hope all your new plants do well for you.

   Annie at the Transplantable Rose

2. Tina Poe Illustration
   4:18 pm on June 14th, 2010

   Thank you Annie, that little painting made me giddy yesterday. I really enjoy the taste of Green Zebra, I had never tasted a tomato quite like it! The descriptions that I read about it being “zingy” are accurate, and I love all things sour, so it’s a keeper for me.

3. Jenny
   7:14 pm on June 14th, 2010

   Green Zebra- I would love to grow that tomato but I have to stick to nematode resistant varieties. How do you know when to pick? But Mrs Burns lemon basil I grow in abundance. I love this basil more than the regular one. It is wonderful made into pesto. I have a warning about the lemon grass. I grew it one year and it ate all the soil in the bed! There was nothing left in there when I pulled it out. This year I bought another plant and mean to make sure it doesn’t get too big. Love Thai food. Sweet potato photo is lovely.

4. Tina Poe Illustration
   8:34 am on June 15th, 2010

   Jenny, hmm I haven’t had nematode problems before, but I will keep an eye out. You know when to pick mostly by squeezing the tomato, but also the top part turns amber when it’s ripe. I liked the taste a little bit better before it turned very dark amber. Next I will post a photo of a ripe vs. unripe Green Zebra.

   I can’t wait to make pesto out of the Mrs. Burns, my other favorite is Persian basil with the slight purple/green coloring, I got the seeds from Iran from my grandmother!

   Wow, I guess I will have to start using it a lot so that the lemon grass doesn’t get huge.

   Thanks for the tips!

5. kaitlin
   10:14 am on November 17th, 2010

   sweet