Who needs Mr. Potato Head...(Post 2 of 2)

...when you can have a Mr. Tomato Head. See what you can do while cooking dinner.

The crown jewel of this little produce creation is a giant German Johnson tomato we grew at our community garden plot on the campus of Guilford College. We live less than a mile from the campus so it's very convenient. We have also been expanding our backyard garden plot and trying to trim branches here and there to get enough sunlight without taking down anymore of the nice mature oaks that shade our house in the summer.



We have Romas, jalapenos, bell peppers, German Johnson's, and watermelons at the community garden. We had cucumbers but they got bacterial wilt pretty early on so we pulled them out at the first signs to save the melons which can be susceptible to the same disease. At home we had our first ever crop of potatoes (Yukon Gold), yellow cherry tomatoes (which Ezra calls "tatoes", yellow pear tomatoes (which make up the nose of our Tomato Head, other tomato varieties that we got from my Dad's volunteers this year, bush beans, cantaloupe, and several others. We also have an herb garden with parsley, mint, stevia, lavender, sage, basil and cilantro.

My Dad grew the squash, zucchini and cucumbers in the picture above. It's nice to be able to share produce with other gardeners. Our friends, the Grims, gave us some of their garlic tonight after a meal at their house. Check out what's been occupying their time here.

For more garden inspiration or for those of you non-gardeners interested in a good read on the value of compost look here. The Kruidenier's are a constant source of garden and other inspiration (whether they know it or not).

That's all for this intervention but I'll leave you with a little taste (pun intended) of what we have been up to inside the house this summer. Hopefully we will be able to post the long awaited before and after pictures of all of our home remodeling adventures by the end of August so stay tuned for that. Until then enjoy pondering how these pictures fit...




Hint for one of these pictures: we had to turn a boy's room into bit more of a girl's room. For those that don't know Vaughn baby #5 is a girl or so we're told. I don't normally like to find out but because we have all boys Kallie really wanted to know (okay so did I but I won't admit it).