What a Difference a Month Makes

Remember last month when I said this was my garden?

Well, this is my garden as of July 3:

Yowza. Can you say tomato jungle? Thank you to everyone who gave me good gardening tips! The tomato food worked. In fact, my tomatoes are crowding out everything else — the basil, the little jalapeno I planted:

Yeah, that’s the basil peeking out behind the jalapeno. I don’t know if it’s going to make it, which is too bad, because I use them consistently. I fear I went overboard on tomatoes this year. But I just never have the heart to thin or weed out the ones that self-seeded and survived. The result is I have twenty tomato plants, my oregano has bolted, and the basil might not make it.

I even made a garden annex because I had no room for anything else:

That’s a squash, a banana pepper, and two bell peppers.

Next year, I swear I’ll cut back. I won’t buy any tomatoes until I see what’s coming up. I’ll do a whole annex for just herbs. Meanwhile, I just have to wait until these beauties ripen:

I have had two or three cherry tomatoes so far, but most are still green. Last year I remember I was already harvesting, because we had some of of my tomatoes on the fourth, but I think I got an earlier start last year, too.

I’ll keep y’all posted.