Yesterday we had our very first tomato from this years crop grown in our self watering bucket containers. It was an Early Girl with very tough skin. I was told that the toughness was due to the extreme heat we are having while another person said that is a characteristic of the Early Girls. Today we are having one of the other types we planted and hopefully it won’t have the tough skin. They might be OK for canning since you peel the skins off anyway but in a sandwich it wasn’t that great.

This years crop using self watering bucket containers

The green and red bell peppers failed to materialize again this year. NOTHING but leaves! However we do have some Hungarian bells that are doing quite well. I will only plant them next year along with tomatoes!

Hungarian Bell Peppers doing quite well in the bucket containers