Wecome to my Vegetable Patch!

Howdy to all,

Just wanted to invite y'all to my vegetable patch - I quess I can not really call it a garden as my plants are in containers and scattered around the yard.   Much to the annoyance of my most patience wife,  I have placed them where they could get the most sunlight - sometimes blocking the light to her flowers, taking up space on the clothes line and hanging in the doorway of the laundry room.   Next year I have been giving permission to move it to the roof as long as I do not carry the water up the stairs as it appears to be a bit rickety - a bit like me!

It all started at the back of the house on top of a particleboard storage unit that was against a wall and under a section of the clothes line.  But after a couple of years of weathering and one growing season it collapsed so I built another work table in it's place made from metal and plywood.  Yeah, I know the plywood will one day fall apart also but since it is bolted in place - it can be replaced easily.  

Last year I had my tamater plants on the work table and installed a support system for them on the wall which worked fine because they did not really do well and never got that big.

Not the case this year - the plants out grew the old support system earlier on and I needed to tie them to the clothes line and to the wall.  


This is earlier this year at  the workbench:

And this is at  the workbench as of  Feb. 22, 2011:

At the east side of the house:

And the front of the house:



Tamater??    What's that?   The Brits call them tomatoes (you have to come up with your own sound effects) and some of my fellow Americans call them tomatoes (again imagime it)  but where I come from we call them tamaters!  I realise that I have been calling them tomatoes in earlier postings but it was for my international visitors - I didn't want to confuse things too much at first.  So, for the correct pronunication of "Tamater" please  listem to Tow Mater:

This year I planted four different types of Cherry Tamaters: Sweet 100's, Sugar Sweeties, Gardener's Delight and Juliet Hybrid.

I also planted some normal tamaters.  In a panic, because I thought I planted my tamater seeds late, I bought a couple of tamater plants at a shop in Satwa - all I could get out of him were that they are local tomaters.   I also planted a Better Boy.  They are getting biggger then I thought they would be.

I also planted five different peppers: Yellow, Red, Orange and Green Bell Peppers and Italian Marconi Golden.  Here is some more info on all different types of Bell Peppers.

And two types of summer squash:  Early Yellow Crookneck and Gold Rush Hybrid.

I have just done a second planting last week.  I planted okra, squash, watermelon, cantaloupe  and a bunch more peppers.  More on that soon! 

That's a quick tour of  my garden patch and what I planted this year.   I am still looking for the pictures I took of the squashes in 2010 but no luck yet.  Future post will focus on the different things I planted and the results.  Thanks for stopping in and having a look at the blog.  As always you are welcome to post comments below.

Take care and hope you stop by again.

Bubba