And More Garden

I mentioned the tomato plant has followed the usual course of tomato plants in my back yard by taking over all the available space it can. So, while I was out watering this morning I thought I would share a few more pics of just what they like to do. First a general pic of the plant as it now grows.

Yup, that sprawling mess is a tomato plant. It has overgrown its bed out onto the ‘lawn’, over the side of the box to the greenhouse, and deeper into the bed climbing the helpless carrots. If you click on the picture you get a larger pic so you can see just how bad it is. In previous years the tomatoes overgrow the whole 3′ by 8′ bed and still get into the lawn and neighbors yard, killing off everything they overgrow EXCEPT the carrots.

That doesnt mean that they leave the carrots in peace. Oh no, that wouldn’t do. Instead you take over their space and use them to your own purposes. I swear tomatoes are the original evil supervillain. Lol. Squeaking an existence out between the carrot/tomato and the fence are a few of my dwarf sunflowers. They just started to bloom yesterday and are opening up nicely this morning. I can’t wait till they start to turn up to the sun and really get going.

I have another dwarf sunflower from that sprouting that I put in a pot to see if it would grow as well as the ones in the ground. It has gotten more light since it isn’t hidden under the shadows of the other plants and has done surprisingly well. It’s almost double the size of the sunflowers in the beds and has really healthy fat leaves.

That flower is in a 14″x14″ pot, I think I will grow all my sunflowers like this next year.