Our first tomato. Is it from the one gallon heirloom tomato variety it took me 45 minutes to pick out at the nursery? Of course not.
It is from a tomato seed pooped out by one of our intrepid, self-sustaining chickens. Of course her placement could have been a little bit better.
It's on a slope leading down to the chicken coop. On the other side of the coop we have a veritable garden of corn and other tomato plants popping up. We aren't cultivating those, however. This one Rick put a support around and we are watering it just to see what kind of tomatoes it produces.
In other gardening news we finally got the driveway circle planted. And by "we" you know I mean I picked out the plants and Rick did the actual digging and planting of said plants. All sixty of them.
The space has morning and late afternoon shade and direct sun mid-day. The hardest part was figuring out how to place the plants. We will have a crab apple tree as a focal point near the center and we wanted a variety of flowering shrubs and ground covers to provide interest throughout the year.
We still have some filler type plants we want to put in and everything needs to grow and fill in but it looks really pretty already (in my humble opinion). Please ignore the stack of firewood in the background. It will be removed in the next few weeks.
We'll have to wait until Spring to get our Crab Apple since the variety we want isn't available right now. For now we just have a stand in Crepe Myrtle to help with the placement of all the rest of the plants.
The only problem we have at the moment is keeping the chickens from digging up the smaller plants and for some reason Belle is totally smitten with the Scaevola Mauve Clusters and wants to lie on them.
I think piles of firewood look great. And too funny about your first tomato – guess the chicken knew where to poop!
Maybe you should hold the chickens over the places you want plants to grow and give them a little shake and a little squeeze. See what umm, pops out and grows. LOL! Yard is looking fabulous!