Pruning Tomatoes

Our family Grandmother-Maurine- Beat her tomato plants with a stick after she watched the plants take off after a beating from a summer hail storm.  I have learned not to doubt Maurine because she DID gardening, making her own soap, quilting, canning etc. etc.

Since I'm not into beating my tomatoes though-I decided last year to begin to prune them.  I just went at them and it worked.  This year I'm actually being more intentional with it but here is a good article that I want to share.

http://www.finegardening.com/how-to/articles/pruning-tomatoes.aspx

Growing and Producing

Tomato Take Over!

Potatoes!

The squash I planted behind my flowers. 

I love these colors and textures together!

Russian Sage, Lavender, Butterfly Bush and Native Grass.

Volunteer Tomato!

Herbs and Asparagus. 

Beautiful Prairie

Walking among native grasses and flowers gives wings to my heart!!!!  I feel like I'm soaring in the wide open skies and could tough the clouds.

Treasure Hunting

We were invited to our friends' house for supper last night and it is beautiful!  They have worked so hard painting, scrubbing, carpet and tile.  It is gorgeous.  But then I checked out the back yard.....  It was a jungle as the house had not been lived in for a while but it was amazing!  

Grape vines, rhubarb, strawberries, dill and who knows what else were stubbornly standing among the weeds.  So of course I asked if I could dig a rhubarb plant!!

The coolest thing was that this family had taken trash cans with lids and put the the down spout into it to use as their water barrel.  Since we have so much rain our friend attached an overflow hose on to them which can water the grass instead of running down the street.  It was a wonderful treasure to find!  My husband and I were excitedly talking on the way home about it and where we would put it.

Amazing what we find when we SEE!!