First red tomato!!!

I ate my first red cherry tomato! It was so beautiful and delicious. Unfortunately it ended up in my mouth before I could get a picture of it. Just going to have to take my word!

My Bad?

O.K. I haven't posted in a while. I've been so freakin crazy I can't think straight. The garden is doing good, but I feel bad talking about it without photos to back it up. But the latest is this. I have 5 tomato plants produce beaucoup tomatoes, green peppers are finally fruiting, blackberries growing, cucumbers flowering like crazy, but no fruit. What else? Oh yeah, peas are the best I've ever had. We can pick a couple handfuls each day. Lettuce suck this year, definately going with a more traditional variety this fall. I had one bloom on my eggplants, but nothing since. I've got volunteer blackberry shoots everywhere, but that's O.K., they are thornless. The newest raspberry transplants are suffering, and one got broken, probably from the newest puppy.

The coolest things is that I've made the decision to go with the chickens, and it is going to be super simple with what we have. We already have the walls (fence and garage wall), all we need is the roof, nest boxes, and perches. And then I'm going to build a frame with chicken wire and a door, so that they can eat in the lawn once and a while, outside of the coop. It's going to be great. Now I just have to ask the neighbor if they want to go in on it. I want to go with a small breed, maybe sexlings (that's what a coworker called them). They are a small black breed. Trouble is they like to roam, and I want a breed that will be happy in a somewhat confined space. The space will be about 3 feet by 20 feet.

Can't wait - I can already taste the first fresh eggs!