Gardening Tips: Tomatos

Hi,

It's Lillie.

I was thinking....

I have lots of people ask me what the milk cartons are doing in my garden.

So here is why they are there:

Tomato's don't like to get there leaves wet. and when there leaves do get wet this happens:

 

So what can we do to stop this? My Mom figured it out!

 

 

How do you do this?

first you buy milk

Then After you have used up all the milk you take a pair of scissors and poke holes in it:

 

But WARNING Don't put more than one hole in the bottom of the carton. Why? Because then all the water will go strait out the bottom instead of all the holes.

Then you take your tool of choice (This year i used my hands :- ) ) and you dig a hole in between two of your tomato plants.

then you place the Carton in the hole.

 

So now next time you need to water your tomato plants you just stick the end of the hose into the Milk carton and the water goes strait to the roots of your tomato plant.

 

When its full it over flows!

How many cartons should i use?

Well that depends on how many tomato plants you have. I have six tomato plants and five milk cartons.

Thanks for reading and i hope that the lord blesses the rest of your day!

Lillie

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

What is this??

Did you guess?

It’s asparagus!

The part you eat (the tall, tree like part) are the shoots it sends up  when it is trying to grow more stalks.

Kinda cool, huh?

:)

 

jk

Garden Update

Hi my name is Lillie.I will be writing on Tuesdays and Fridays. Most of my blogs will probably be about gardens, and they will mostly be pictures! So here's our Garden!

First Veggie Garden!

We just got our first tomatoes!

And the blueberries are beautiful but Ruthie Lynn's Chickens love them and its hard to keep Bertie from jumping the fence to get to them. :-)

Tomatoes are on the way!

My carrot tops are HUGE so I'm hoping the Carrot it self is just as big!

Our zucchini has 7 little zucchinis on it already! But because of all the rain (ill tell that story some other time) we had to plant our cucumbers late so as you can see below they are a little behind.

We have already gotten 3 Lovely strawberry's!

We planted out pumpkins at the same time as our cucumbers but the are already twice the size!

Me and my mom will have to move them soon.

The Flower Gardens:

Daisy and Lorcy posed for me! :-)

The Hollyhocks

Lilys!

My Moms favorite. Daisy's

Lambs Ear in bloom!

I hope you Enjoy your Day!

Blessings,

Lillie Laughter W.



beautiful produce

Last week, Mamo (my incredible grandma) sent my mom and sister home with a bucket full of the first fruits of her garden- and we could hardly wait, so we ate them for lunch that very day. I can’t wait until we have our first bucket full of produce from our garden this year! We missed our garden a lot when we moved, and am so very grateful that we were able to do our first vegetable garden at the new house this year!

(there are a lot of photos, as I totally fell in love with the way the broccoli looked in the sunlight…  :) The photographer in me was so happy! :) )

 

the last photo shows what we love to do with our veggies this time of year- pasta salad!

It’s super easy to make:

-1 box of noodles, cooked

-pepperoni, to taste (we like a lot :) )

-assorted veggies that would go in a salad such as broccoli, tomatoes, peppers, etc. We use whatever’s in the fridge. :)

-salad dressing, usually Italian

 

mix it all up and wa-la! A tasty, fresh out of the garden lunch!

jk