Today’s prompt was an easy one.
Here’s a shot of the first tomatoes in our garden:
Typically I take my point and shoot to the garden, but today I took my SLR with the Tamron 28-300mm lens. This was shot at 120mm; f 5.6; 1/200, ISO 100. The zoom on this lens really takes pretty decent macro shots. Close up you can even see the “hairs” on the tomato stems.
I was happy to see that the slugs seem to be gone, but found two snails attached to the new lettuce plants. We read in our organic gardening book that both coffee grounds and ashes repel slugs and snails so we took some of both and spread them around the perimeter of the bed. They warned not to use too many coffee grounds as they are quite acidic.
We also got a fence up around our plot today. You can see the tall “plants” beyond our plot. They are weeds! There are only three plots that haven’t been claimed in the community garden and two of the three border ours. I’m hoping the mulch around the plot will help keep down the spread of weeds, but each time we go we need to dig out a few. If the plants have as deep a root system as our weeds, they will do well!
The only thing ready to pick were some tiny arugula leaves, two kinds of basil, and some cilantro. We used the Thai Basil in a shrimp and tomato pasta sauce tonight. It has a lighter flavor than the typical basil, but is quite nice.
That garden is amazing lady! I so love my garden…and those pictures are spectacular! I am so going to try the coffee grounds thing, as we have snails. Thanks for the info.
I’m so jealous of your nice, big potential tomatoes.
Rinda
I’ve heard about coffee grounds as well….am trying them round my hostas….and using them to help feed the blueberries.
Lovely take on the prompt. Garden looks fab.
another good slug destroyer is beer – put out some shallow containers of beer – the slugs love it, get drunk and drown
I’m enjoying watching the progress of your garden. We are having terrible problems with slugs here and have tried every remedy known to man. we still picked out 30 the other night!!
I photographed tomatoes for ‘grow’, too! I didn’t grow mine myself though, I’m by no means a natural gardener…. Your garden looks lovely, how wonderful to cook with your own produce 🙂 I seem to recall that cilantro is what we call coriander? A delicate herb which is good in Asian dishes and excellent in hummous?
We don’t even have green ones yet! great job!
I’d be fine with those herbs – I use coriander/cilantro all of the time, oh, and basil. Mint and parsley grow well too and they are pretty hardy …. the idea of drunk slugs sounds very funny 🙂
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