Samantha's Jalapeno Plant

About six weeks ago, Samantha planted two tomato plants and one jalapeno plant.  We would love to plant more, but with the numerous deer that travel through our backyard on a regular basis, it would be senseless to plant a huge garden.  Maybe one day, we might have a nice, fenced in area to plant.  But in the meantime, a few pots on our back deck suit us just fine.

The tomato plants are growing very tall and are producing lots of little grape tomatoes.  We are just waiting for them to start turning red.

As for the jalapeno plant, that has already started growing little jalapenos all over it.  In fact, we were able to harvest our first one last week.

Posing with her first pick of the season:

Obviously, Sam wasn't going to be eating the jalapeno herself.  She picked it just for me, so that I could enjoy it on my tacos that I made for dinner that night.  (Steve might have enjoyed some of it too, but he was out of town).  Pretty soon, it will be time to pick a couple more!