Home Grown & Wind Blown

It worked.  Those seeds?  They grew.  Into gorgeous little green shoots.  Then the wind kicked them all over our balcony and some snapped and died; others survived.  Some were replanted or reborn (not kidding).  But the end result is that we have five enormous tomato plants, three green pepper plants, one ghost eggplant, one Brussels sprout and lots and lots of herbs.



I hadn't really considered the fact that each of these plans would produce SO MUCH FOOD so the dilemma quickly became what to do with them all, but fortunately, my family and our neighbors have been gracious enough to help  take some off of our hands. Fortunately, Miss D loves her some tomatoes! :)



Now that fall is starting (I'm still mourning the end of summer, for the record...) I have to figure out what gardeners do with these luscious crops once they've stopped producing.  Funny how that never occurred to me when I was feverishly planing away in the spring!  What a great journey, though.  Next year?  Fewer tomatoes.  More herbs.  Cucumbers.  Red peppers.  More Brussels sprouts.  And pretty flowers in baskets hanging from the railing.