American Plant - the Cucumbers and Tomato Plants Are In!

Who doesn't love flowers? My husband would ask "who doesn't love tomatoes?" Having been away for a week on a trip to Florida made a huge difference in our tiny patio garden. The yellow flower vine is attracting huge bumble bees, and it is the vegetable planting season. We always leave enough space for one tomato plant and this year I'm squeezing in a cucumber. In Milwaukee, we had to wait at least until Memorial Day to even think about planting anything. I was beginning to think we would need to do the same here given the cold temps lately. But today was brilliantly sunny, and we took a ride to American Plant to pick up a couple things for the garden pots and the small planting garden, but the real reason was to get those vegetables. The daffodils and tulip leaves are still cluttering up the tiny space, but I stuck some cosmos in between them. The clematis vine is already taking over the place so that was cut way back - enough to fill a garbage bag. The southern exposure is a bonus - aside from the fact that we even have a patch of land to plant anything. And now the wait begins. Every day my husband will check on that tomato plant and I will check on the cucumber. It's sort of a ritual every year, and a very tasty one.