What I've been doing instead of taking pictures.

[Blue_In_AK]

Growing season is short but intense here - you gotta jump on it as soon as it warms up, or it's too late. Spring was a couple weeks early, so my garden's been in about a week. A lot of work, but satisfying. I'll post pictures of the flower beds when they get blooming a little more.

[Solly Mack]

1. Looking forward to the blooms.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. The forget-me-nots are getting good,

but I'm especially waiting for the columbines, my favorites. I lost some plants because of our weird winter and lack of snow cover, but enough stuff is coming back that I think it'll still be good. Natural perennial gardens change from year to year, so I never know exactly what I'm going to get.

[Solly Mack]

3. The surprise is what's so neat.

Each day can bring a new delight.

[calimary]

4. Nice!!! And tomatoes too?

Those are always best when homegrown. The depth of flavor be beat!

This is a terrific set-up you've got! Like all the contours and terraces. Really nice!!! Happy growing season! The gardenias are starting up again in the bushes across the street. And avocados beginning again a few doors down from there. NICE.

[Enthusiast]

5. You sure are neat and orderly.

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[NV Whino]

6. Great setup

Your tomatoes look better than mine. I do have one on the vine, though.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. They are Early Girl and some kind of short season Roma.

We can only grow tomatoes here that mature in 55-60 days unless we have a heated greenhouse, which I don't. I bought these as fairly good-sized starter plants.

My friend down in San Francisco gave me a bunch of heirloom tomato seeds that she's been collecting, so I pulled out all the short-season ones and will try to grow some from seeds next year. I have a light set-up under the house that I've used to grow other things , and I suspect it will work good for tomato plants, too.

[NV Whino]

8. My early tomato is Lemon Boy

Haven't grown yeller ones before. I can hardly wait to taste it. We have a couple of good growers in the Valley so we get some good plants, and they're all organic.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. These are the seeds I'm going to try next year

Black Russian
Tumbler
Sweet million
Heirloom Suberian
Bison
Paul Robeson

A couple of those are good for containers. Ann had some seeds for yellow tomatoes, but my research showed they would probably take too long here.

[NV Whino]

10. I've grown the Black Russian and sweet million

Both are good, although I like purple Cherokee better than Black Russian.

I love those dark heirlooms. Lots of flavor.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. The Cherokee says 80 days to maturity.

Were yours earlier than that? I have some of those here, too, but I was going to send them back down to CA because I thought they would take too long to mature.

[NV Whino]

12. Yeah, they're late ones

Also, very hard to grow. They're sparse and they tend to split. But oh the taste!

[handmade34]

13. very nice!

awww... gardens

I have taken a few photos of spectacular places where I am working now, but I would trade it all for time to work in my garden (flying home Tuesday to play a little )