The ghetto garden has made an appearance again this year at the Maine household. It is ever so slightly less ghetto since we didn't use the kiddie pool this year, but instead opted for lots and lots of pots.
What we have here is a lot of tomato plants (celebrity, whatever that means), a green pepper plant, a sweet red pepper, and some cilantro in the mix. The tomato plant to the right already produced a beautiful, enormous red tomato that my husband was watching for a week with hungry eyes. Unfortunately, a squirrel (or one of the giant pigeons living in my neighbor's roof - this issue is still up for debate) got to it first. Greg's heart nearly broke.
In an effort to make use of every square inch, there are plants on top of our teeny little shed. Here we have multiple types of hot peppers and some roma tomatoes!
This particular pepper was so cute it got its own closeup. Teeny tiny thai peppers!!
Basil in a pot! I liked the really little basil leaves we had last year (covered more surface area) but Greg prefers these. As he is the one who keeps the garden alive, I guess he wins.
The multi-colored lettuce was bought at Rochester Public Market (#1 in the US, if you didn't know). It is basically awesome mixed lettuce in a planter. Yum! The green stuff was planted from seed by Greg, but the squirrels/pigeons keep digging the center up. Greg has constructed what he imagines will deter and hopefully impale one of the offending creatures.
We also keep plants along the side of our house. Here we have a roma tomato plant that is taking over the entire planet! Greg keeps having to add more sticks to prop it up, and keep it from choking the hydrangeas!
This thing is a cayenne pepper. I had no idea they could look so twisty and evil!
And I have saved the best for last. That, friends, is the world's tiniest cucumber!!! Dear cucumber, I will be eating you shortly. Grow quickly, ghetto garden!
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