How does your garden grow?

Mine grows very well! Hopefully this won't jinx it. TOMATOES: 3.5 weeks ago, I planted 2 red ones and 1 yellow/red striped one. However, when I was at Lowes last week, they had more tomato plants that already had little green tomatoes and looked very healthy. I couldn't resist!! I just had to get it....though I guess that's cheating a little, planting a plant that already has tomatoes on it! :-) On the new addition, there are about 4 sizeable green ones and about 6 more budding. The most exciting breakthrough is that there are little tomatoes budding on the 2 red plants I planted originally. They're so cute! I can't see them unless you pick up the bud and turn it toward me, but when I do, there they are, little fetus tomatoes about the size of a pea! Mr. Stripey (red/yellow striped tomato plant) is not doing nearly as well, though. He's not as bushy and his leaves keep turning yellow & falling off. :-( I'll blame it on genetic engineering, to protect my newfound garden self-esteem. :-) OKRA: planted from seeds, they are fabulous! They started to poke through the soil at 7 days (right on time) and the leaves & stalks are now about 6 inches tall. No signs of actual okra yet though. PEPPERS & CILANTRO: the rain almost drowned my cayene pepper (being a novice gardener, I hadn't noticed that the container didn't have very good drainage) and it successfully killed my cilantro. I replaced the cilantro with two more $2 plants, and re-planted the cayene pepper to a container with better drainage (it's looking better). Also, feeling pessimistic, I got a second pepper plant (cherry peppers, I'd never heard of them before!) just in case the cayene can't pull through. I feel like a new parent whose child has gotten sick or injured, so guilty. :-\ SQUASH: the two plants are getting much bushier (and smell like squash too), but no baby squash yet. BASIL: by far the best. Every 3-4 days I have been using a handful of leaves, and it keeps replenishing, getting taller and bushier! ROSEMARY: also victim to the frequent rain and poor drainage container, it too has been replanted but is looking much better.

I think I'm hooked on vegetable gardens, and could definitely see myself planting them yearly! I just wish everything would grow faster. This is definitely not an activity for the impatient! I am getting better...I no longer check twice a day to "see if I have tomatoes for dinner yet." Steve said that he was going to go buy tomatoes and put them in the container as a joke! I wouldn't put it past him :-)