Salsa Garden !!

The year before last, a co-worker of Mike's kept bringing him baggies of home-grown jalapenos. Mike enjoyed them so much on pizza, tacos, home-made salsa and the like, that last spring we bought 2 jalapeno plants of our own. It was great fun to watch the progress of the plants and eat the fruits of our labor.

In fact, it went extremely well except for a brief battle with 2 tomato horn worms. They were very gross - bright green and as big around as my little finger. They EAT leaves, stems, etc. Crazy. They nearly brought our growing to a halt until I picked them off and destroyed them.

This year, we decided to branch out a bit and make a [partial] Salsa Garden! Jalapenos, Serranos, cilantro, green onions, and tomatoes too. I didn't bother with the garlic this year.


These are the green onions. Turns out that we didn't plant nearly enough seeds, so we will only get about 6 green onions on the first harvest. Jason planted most of the remaining seeds, so hopefully in about 6 weeks - we will have plenty more!

This is the Cilantro! Turns out we may have over planted this. We have 3 large bunches of cilantro and probably NO way to use it all before it goes bad. We have already made 3-4 batches of salsa with the cilantro and it is terrific!

These are 3 tomato plants. It is hard to differentiate the plants - but the one on the right is cherry tomatoes, and the other two are small tomatoes - not cherry sized - but a bit bigger. I can't remember the name.


This is a cluster of the cherry tomatoes. They have not begun to turn red yet. I am beginning to think we need to tie up the plants so they can get more sun! We want to harvest tomatoes soon! If, they get red.....

This is a broad view of 4 pepper plants - 3 are jalapenos, and the 4th is a Serrano pepper plant. We just had a taste test with the peppers recently when we had homemade pizza. The family decided the Serrano's have more heat than our jalapenos.


Here is a close up of a jalapeno.


Here is another shot of the jalapenos. I think Jason forgot to snap a picture of the Serranos!