Tomatoes

We have some green tomatoes growing!!! :) Very exciting!

Big ones

Little ones

So I have a self proclaimed black thumb but we have some tomatoes growing. Yay! Mind you the plant with the bigger tomatoes only have two growing on it.  And the cherry tomatoe plant had one turning red but that dissappeared.  I swear it was there though.  I'm still exciting that something is growing and we might be able to eat some delicious tomatoes some day soon. :)
I hope that next year we'll be planting an actual garden.  Here's my wish list for next years garden:
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Summer squash
Zuccini
That seems like a good start to me.  I'd also like to start and herb garden with basil, chives and the likes.  Oh and some day we want to get blueberry bushes and grape vines! Some day!  Hopefully we'll atleast get the basic garden started. Yum yum!

What is it?

When we moved into our house (during the winter) we noticed there were some flower beds in the yard.  In the spring time things started to grow in them. Now some of the plants are blooming but I have no idea what they are.   There was a nice big orange poppy that flowered earlier in the year.  I didn't know what it was but my mom was able to find out that it was a poppy.  Right now we have these spikey pink and red flowers blooming.  I have no idea what they are!!!

Spikey Red Flower

Spikey pink flowers (in background)

I've tried Googling spikey red flower but I didn't see anything that looked like my flowers.  I still think its cool that things are flowering in our yard without me having to do anything.  Someday I'll figure out how to garden for real. :)

It's a Bee!

It's a bee!!!

Check out the bee in our "garden"... its mostly just weeds. I wanted to see what would grow in the garden first before I try my hand at gardening. I've been awful at it so far.  Mostly I've just tried growing indoor plants and they usually don't last too long or the cat eats them.  She at my last plant that had actually lasted for a couple of months.  It probably lasted so long because she's was living upstairs.  She just finally got used to the dog and has been venturing down stairs more often.  Oh well, maybe next year we'll have a nice pretty garden outside. We do have a nice pretty bunch of daylilies by the river, those are nice and hopefully my black thumb wont have an affect on them.   

Daylilies by the river

Oooh and I'm trying to grow some tomatoes in pots.  Derek came home with the plants one day.  They haven't died yet.  There are actually a couple of green tomatoes growing on them.  :)  And there has been some rhubarb growing since the spring.  Who knew it had such huge leaves!

The Rhubarb back in April