garden photography

I brought my camera out to the garden with the best of intentions. I was going to take pictures of my plants and then write interesting blog posts about them. When I got back and uploaded my photos, I realized the sad truth: my plants are not very photogenic. Instead, I had taken pictures mostly of other people's plants.

There are a couple of reasons why my garden is not very exciting to look at. The square foot gardening/intensive gardening method means that all my plants are rammed together, so it's hard to get a clean shot of one plant without trampling on another plant. I also don't have very many flowers, and those took up the bulk of my shots too. The final reason is probably that my plants are all still really small. The macro on my camera is not that great and I'm not sure how exciting it is to look at puny vine #2 and compare it to sprout #3. Whooo.

Anyhow, here is a volunteer tomato plant that grew in an untended planter box. I rescued it and it's now probably the largest tomato plant I have. The leaves are huge and the stem is thicker than a size 15 knitting needle. As you can see, though, the tomatoes are still rather small. Oh well.