Urban Garden: Update #3

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. - unknown

Things are really taking off thanks to the combination of sun and rain we have been getting over the last few weeks.  I have eaten more broccoli than I care to think about and the same will be happening with cauliflower and cabbage in the next few weeks. 

I have probably gotten twenty pounds worth of tomatoes and things are not slowing down.  Thank goodness I don't have acid reflux as tomatoes have been in many, many meals.  The two winners so far are of course eating them straight off the vine (there is nothing better than a still warm tomato off the vine) and a corn/tomato/basil salad over polenta (seriously summer in a bowl).  

There are tons of sweet and hot peppers which should be ready in a few weeks.

Same thing goes with the carrots.  Nothing much to see just yet.

My gardening neighbor has also been growing some GREAT sunflowers.  As many of you know they are my most favorite flower so it is nice to walk past them on the way to my plot.  

I have some zinias going instead.

 On the home front the front garden is filled with lettuce

and purple pole beans