Gardening Overload

Life is busy as usual. Jess still has a lot of work. Jonathan has been working more than 40 hours a week, even going in on one of his usual days off.

And of course, I always seem to have more to do than I can manage to get done.

But in the midst of all this we planted a garden. My original idea was a few tomato plants, a few pepper plants, maybe some flowers. But once Jesse started tilling he just kept going.

This morning we went and bought some plants. Jess wanted to have a variety of tomato and pepper plants. I think he succeeded in that mission.

For we now have these varieties of tomato plants in our garden:

• 1 Lemon Boy
• 1 Cherokee Purple
• 3 Mountain Pride
• 3 Rutgers
• 6 Early Girl
• 6 Roma
• 6 Park's Whopper
• 6 Burpee Big Boy
• 6 Better Boy
• 6 Celebrity
• 9 Atkinson
• 9 Brandywine

That makes 62 tomato plants. And of course, we also have 13 pepper plants:

• 1 Gypsy
• 3 Golden Summer
• 3 Sweet Banana
• 6 California Wonder

That makes a total of 75 plants in our garden.

When questioned what he was going to do with the produce from that many plants, Jess said, "Eat it!" I told him no way he could eat all that, so then he declared he'd give a lot away.

I believe we may have a teensy bit more garden than we really need. Gardening overload indeed!