Surprises

I love coming home to surprises - like the bouquet of flowers that greeted me when I got home from a bachelorette party on Sunday. Tom's such a gentleman!

Question: Am I spelling bachelorette wrong or does spell check not recognize this word? 

Our peppers are looking great, all except for one of the plants: the chocolate pepper plant. This was the one I was most interested in since I love chocolate in general. It's the tallest plant out of all of the species we have, but it doesn't have a pepper growing, nor has it had any flowers. Maybe it's just not the year for it...

Our Islander pepper is now a deep violet!

The Italia is looking great!

My next question: When can I pick these? Last year we grew a pepper plant at my dads. However, the blight hit, I got extremely frustrated when I had to throw away all of the tomato plants, and I forgot all about picking the giant pepper that grew. I imagine we'll be able to pick ours quite shortly.

Oh yes, one more thing - we picked our second tomato last night! Three more are light orange. I need to be patient and let them fully ripen before I grab them off the vine. 

Tomato Season!

We picked our first tomato this morning! It just popped off in my hands!

Our four baby tomato plants have taken over our fire escape. Wilson think's he's in the jungle every time he goes out there. Ok, maybe he doesn't think that, but I like to pretend.

I freaked out when I looked at one of our peppers. It was discolored! There were dark splotches all over it. I've only had a few peppers during my lifetime - green bell, red, yellow, jalapeño, and some stubby red ones - so I knew there was a possibility that this was going to look different. Google came to my rescue. This particular pepper, the Islander, is supposed to be purple when ripe. We're right on target then!

Now if only this wet weather would stop so these plants could drain.......