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Things are going really great here! I have most of the green beans put up that I'll need for the next year and all the spinach I'll need. The corn looks like it's going to produce well and should be ready by the end of June. I'm already drying basil, oregano, and thyme. The potato plants look fantastic so hoping for a good crop there and my carrots look better than any year I have grown them. The sugar peas are still producing and the lettuce us still looking really good. We have eaten more salads this year than any other. I doubled the amount of celery but don't know why. I haven't even used up what I froze last year. The garlic looks about ready to harvest.

But my big excitement is my tomatoes. I grow Roma for sauces but have also been growing my heritage Marian for about five years now and have 40 of those which produce fantastic. This year I thought I would try to really baby one plant to see what I could actually get out of it. I planted it the first day of February and grew it in the house by a window until it was about 4 ft tall with only one vine. Then I transplanted it into a 5 gallon bucket of only compost in the green house and allowed it to get two more vines. I keep all other branches trimmed off up to about two feet from the top of each of the three branches. Get this! It now has 38 tomatoes on it (three I will pick tommorow) and over 20 flowers. I'm going to see if I can get 100 tomatoes from it this year.

Wow. That’s great. We are far from harvest, but at least Hubby managed to get most of his stuff done before the rains started daily showers off and on all day.

If you get a chance, please post a pic of that prolific Tomato. I’m sure that everyone would love to see it.