We focused on two things: tomatoes and peppers. We bought 4 kinds of tomatoes (yellow grape tomatoes, red grape tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, and beefsteak tomatoes) and 3 kinds of peppers (red sweet peppers, orange sweet peppers, and jalapeno peppers) and didn't bother with other potential crops simply because we wanted to see if it would work. And it did!
Beefsteak on the vine...
Beefsteak after Mum took her garden sheers to clip it free from the vine. It's huge and going to go great with the chicken burgers Mum plans on cooking.
Here are the Roma tomatoes. We have at least 12-14 per plant, making our final haul (once their ready) at least 24-28 Roma tomatoes. Mum will put them to good use. She loves using Romas in her Pico de Gallo and in her pasta sauces.
And these are the red grape tomatoes. From one harvest, Mum must have had at least 20 little tomatoes from the red tomato plants and at least as many from the yellow plants.
And here is one of the many sweet peppers we have hanging from the stems. This little one will soon start to turn red, and it is the smallest of the bunch. Our jalapeno plants have a good 12-14 peppers per plant (we have two plants), which means plenty of peppers to work with. However, they're very small right now. I'll probably wait to photograph those until they're bigger.
It is amazing what a little soil, water, and sun can create - even in a bucket. There is this immense satisfaction knowing what went into the food you are consuming. No pesticides and fertilizers, while we knew where the soil came from and what was in it. Everything was natural, organic, and delicious. And now that we know our bucket garden works, next year will mean more tomatoes, peppers, and a few other things.
How about you? Did you plant a garden this year? If so, what did you plant? Be sure to share in the comments.
Happy Tuesday!
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