New home

I may post a few more garden pics here, but I've moved on to my own house, not a rental. I will miss some things at the old schoolhouse (views) and I am happy to leave others (mouse and insect-infested walls). Here are some new views of plants at the new place. Everything is on the very long deck right now- it will take some time to make a real garden plot here.

My sunflowers finally bloomed. These are some cherry-colored ones, only a few feet tall.

The 5-color pepper finally decided to move on from mono-purple coloration. These are great plants- pretty tough, and very colorful. They say the peppers are quite HOT- I may dry some and try them in stir-fry.

Basil mania- I have regular basil and fancy purple ruffle basil, grown from seed. Some of the purple basil is sort of green and flecked with purple, and not that ruffly at all. But it all seems to taste the same.

Tomato, tomato!

I have too many tomatoes to keep count. I expected this year to be like last year- there were many storms last year in July and August, and most of my tomatoes and plants were destroyed by hail and wind. So, expecting this to happen again this year, I planted more tomato plants. But the storms and hail haven't shown up. So instead, I've ended up with this:

And this:

And today, THIS:

Yes, something like 20 pounds of tomatoes ripening in 4 days. I already made like 12 cups of tomato sauce and dried hundreds of cherry tomatoes; I'm going to have to find more tomato products to create.