Ah never in doubt. TWGT postings are as reliable as a Swiss watch. Well we had some good rains earlier in the week here in North Texas. All the greenies took a liking to the deep drink from above. Got 2 cukes now and also a cubanelle and anaheim pepper popped out nicely. The ‘maters are slow but the beefsteak variety seems to be doing the best. I gave them all a nice little covering of compost with cultivating too. Speaking of ‘Swiss’ the chard variety in pots took forever to get going but I’m picking a few leaves for the salads now. Now if we can only keep the dreaded triple digit temps at bay but next week the heat is on so they say.
I brought my car back. For 40 miles there was rain so heavy I couldn’t see the stripes on the road. I stayed close to his car in front hoping he could see the stripes enough to stay on the road. He was calling me on the phone during this pounding rain and telling me it was too dangerous to park on the side of the road so we needed to keep moving. I don’t want a trip like that any time soon.
I brought my orange tree that has oranges growing and a container with sweet banana peppers growing and one tomato plant, Cherry Punch, since it is super sturdy and has numerous flowers on it. I bought and planted those seeds late (this is the tomato with more Vit. C that other tomatoes). We brought back a large number of ripe tomatoes from my garden. We brought the blackberry plants and two corn plants that have ears of corn growing. Also brought the Fooled You Pepper plant as there are several good sized peppers on it.
The Sweet Million cherry tomatoes and Fourth of July tomatoes were the best producers but I didn’t plant Tycoon when I did the rest so I will still grow that one. Cherry Punch was planted late and I will definitely grow that one again and will try to grow one in this house this winter as it was developed to be in containers. I brought one Tromboncino squash plant and set it next to one leg of a metal archway so it can grow up it. It is already attaching itself to the metal.
We will go back to my house in the fall and bring more plant containers. There is a heater hard wired into the garage here, a three car garage (with a workshop that takes up one space), so plants may be moved in there during the winter so they won’t freeze. The huge containers already here, of course, can’t be moved, but those are winter hardy.
This backyard is a container heaven. When one steps out the backdoor, there is a huge concrete area with containers of plants and an outside dining table and chairs. A concrete path goes to the back part of the yard, walking under a decorative metal archway into that area. There are 14 bird houses he made that are on high poles.
There are many thin metal garden stakes with birds, animals, religious figures, on them that are stuck in the various containers and there are figures of animals and frogs on the ground. While in Conroe at Cracker Barrel restaurant/store, I got a ceramic Peacock to add to the other ceramic animals on the ground. There are many wind chimes starting at the back door and throughout the back area and when the wind blows slightly strong, the place sounds like an orchestra is out there. There is also a sitting area on a brick floor shaded by a couple of trees and there are beds outlined with brick where ivy/other plants are and containers sitting around with various plants growing.
There are so many containers already here with plants (no food plants), I will get the names from him so I will know what is here. When I get around to it, I’ll use my camera and take pictures. There is also a large open area covered with grass for as many containers as I want. All this is surrounded by a solid fence, so no one outside sees any of it.
This container garden will eventually, in the not distant future, be much larger than the one I did at my house. I brought my grow lamp and two large bags of my seed starter so no problem starting seeds when I’m ready to do that.