After Sarah and I planted the garden on May 1, we excitedly shared our venture with everyone we talked to. We received similar responses: "You planted HOW MANY tomato plants? 16?" Apparently that's a lot. We've been told 1 or 2 tomato plants can yield hundreds of tomatoes, so we're looking at thousands. To tell you the truth, I am not worried...Sarah knows everyone on the planet (well so do I :) ), so I think there will be no shortage of tomato lovers with whom to share the products of our hard work. Sarah still plans to put some herbs in a pot, and I still planned to plant garlic. I learned that you plant the individual cloves, not the whole bulb. In the picture, where you see the big mound of dirt freshly dug on the left of the garden, is where I planted 8 garlic cloves. I'm very, very excited to have garlic later this year since I use lots of it in my cooking! Gardening was particularly peaceful this day since Seamus was sleeping when we got out the car and happily napped the entire time I planted! What a delightful baby. Oh, this has nothing do do with gardening, but we went to the zoo with Meaghan on May 11 when it was 95 degrees, and this picture is too cute for me not to post.
Our plants are growing! I don't know my onion lingo, but something is already sprouting out of the ground where we planted the bulbs pretty deep ( I think 4-6"). The tomato plants are getting taller. It continues to rain often in St. Louis, so hopefully that is keeping Nick and Sarah's watering workload low.
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