VEGETABULAR BEGINNINGS, APRIL 1999!
(Hold the cursor over the picture to identify the vegetable!)

It's a start: more to come?
The huge tomatoe plant is a selfseeder from last year - who knows what kind. The growth and flower arrangement on the plant make me think it may be one of my favorites: Beefsteak! Just in case it isn't, I put in the store-bought plant, too. The middle picture is of my cabbage experiment - at least it's doing better than my iceberg-lettuce experiment - the seeds went in the same day but there ain't no darn sign of any lettuce (I haven't even weeded that particular little patch, just to be on the safe side...). My intentions are to put in some melon and pumpkin seeds, and probably some green beans, as well. Still looking for some bell peppers to come up (crammed the seed pods from store-bought peppers in the ground).
If anything new pops up, I'll add it to this page - my cherry tomato is in questionable condition, so it doesn't get it's picture up until there's more to add together with it!

baby tomato plant     baby cabbage plants     giant tomato plant
Oh, it gripes me sooo to pay the store prices for tomatoes! A few years back, one of my Beefsteaks kept bearing fruit all the way through winter - I was ecstatic. Last year I wanted to replicate that and bought a tomatoe plant late in the season. Well, it pined and whined and never did anything, really, just kinda sat there looking all sickly. I pruned it back in late winter (there was some healthy-looking growth) and gave it another couple of months - nada! Found out recently that the Beefsteak seed-crops failed last year, so that likely explains that. I'd been wondering why I couldn't find any Beefsteak plants until really, really late in the season. This year they're back, though - yeah!
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