Only God creates life

The wonderful news is that my Early Girl Tomato lived up to her name and sprouted blossoms! (in the red circle)

She has easily doubled in size in 2 weeks! Most of the others are growing well too, so I think I will have a good crop in a few months.

The tiny baby blossoms won't become fruit in this awful heat, but it is a very encouraging start.

I am very thoroughly puling weeds and watering every night, but actual fruit is completely up to God.

My New Babies!

I may have picked the very HOTTEST weekend of the year, but I got some sunshine and I planted some tomatoes!

This picture is from Saturday night, before I picked up 3 more bags of potting soil at Sam's Club in order to plant the last 3 little dears. I should start picking fresh, juicy homegrown tomatoes by the end of September. Sometimes I really love texas! Up north we never would have imagined home grown salads on Thanksgiving, and with any luck we won't have a hard freeze before then.

Now, for the details. I have 1 yellow plant, 3 heritage Paul Robeson's which should have purple-ish tomatoes, an Early Bird, an Arkansas Traveler (beefsteak tomatoes), 2 plants with Italian tomatoes and the last one was called Sunmaster which is supposed to grow well in the hot sun.

Now I just need to remember to water them on the off chance that it doesn't rain every other day.

Stay tuned for more on "'Mater Watch 2010"