Okay, so, the first tomato out of the gate, as it were, from the melange of plants that volunteered from last year was the Pierce's Pride. Obviously a hardy heirloom -- not to mention beautiful, in that lumpy purply sort of way.
In other news, the Big Rainbow heirloom I got at the Farmer's Market is also going gangbusters. This picture (below) was taken June 15, so a little over two weeks after the photo in the blog post dated May 31. It's more than doubled in size. Not bad, right? I'll soon have another as my stealth visit to water the garden last night after returning from a four-day trip to La Costa (which has put in a new herb 
garden at the spa and will continue incorporating the herbs into both the treatments and the spa menu -- recipes to follow) revealed that it's made another pretty incredible leap in height. The little Hokkaido watermelon -- the slowest of the seedlings to start, you may recall -- is also doing well in its spot nearby (below and to the right of the Big Rainbow just above the glimpse of the hose).
I've been doing a lot of cleaning up in and around the garden. The great thing about summer is that everything grows. The not-so-great thing is everything GROWS (including things you would prefer would not). In other words: Happy Summer Solstice!
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