Planting tomatoes in June

This summer, we were blessed with many tomato plants & a couple of green pepper plants this summer from both our church (NVF) and Betsy's dad (Russ). So, Bryan & the kids planted them. It was quite a fun little project.

To the right, Kai is bringing the shovel over while Deschutes watches.

Everybody is digging holes for all the plants. We also dug an irrigation trench to make it easier to water the plants.

Miyana loves to dig and cannot go ANYWHERE without some sort of shovel in her hand.

Miyana is helping with bringing the plants over.

Finally, all the plants are in the ground and water is sent to them. Kai has eagerly taken on the responsibility to water the garden once a day. The flow of water makes a nice little waterfall on the way down. One time the water had found some mole holes and "escaped" until we figured it out and plugged them up.

In August, we have had lots of tomatoes, but they haven't ripened all at the same time. Usually, if Kai & Miyana are helping to pick, the ripe ones never make it to the front door.

In September, there are lots more green tomatoes that will soon be eaten by hungry little kids. The tomatoes have been delicious.