Garden Tomatoes Galore!

Greetings garden lovers! I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Hopefully you have lots of delicious garden gems to enjoy! ♥

Back in April, we picked up a few tomato seedlings at a Tomatomania sale at Descanso Gardens:

• Sungold
• Cherokee Purple
• Mario's Roma

They were supposed to be the best varieties to handle extreme desert heat... and they are growing like I have never seen tomato plants grow before! Last year, my best tomato plant had maybe 6 tomatoes total... for the entire growing season!

But these varieties are amazing! There have been so many tomatoes... I have not been able to keep count!

'Sungold' variety

They are so delicious... wayyyyyy better than grocery store tomatoes any day!

'Cherokee Purple'

'Mario's Roma'

Does anyone know of any other tomato varieties that thrive in extreme heat?

Daffodils and Baby Cucumbers!

Happy Monday fellow garden lovers!! ♥

Spring is almost here... and I can't wait until I can go crazy in the garden! Right now there are beautiful daffodils blooming in random pots (planted back in November)! I love their cheery little faces!

Baby Cucumbers!

In my "office", are baby cucumbers! Along with tomatoes, morning glories, eggplants, orange peppers, peas, and calendulas! They are crowding each other out under the grow light... so I can't wait until I can take them outside!

I think April 14th is generally the last frost date in the Antelope Valley. Just 4 weeks to go! :)

Have you started your Spring garden yet?

And, do you ever start planting before the "official" last frost date? The weather is beautiful... I am so tempted! ;)

It has arrived!

Guess what finally arrived?

 

Heeding Potted Farm's advice, I ended up purchasing this grow light from Amazon! I also ended up getting this heating pad! 

 

I set everything up yesterday... and I swear the peas have already grown (overnight)!

I am so excited... :)