The Fruits of Our Labors

Remember when we planted our first garden back in March?

What was supposed to be 70 days has ended up being closer to 250 days, but our pepper plant finally has peppers!!!

We're guessing we have 3 yellow bell peppers and 1 green bell pepper.

Also, our gardenia and marigolds have flowered again:

And our tomato plant finally has blossoms!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, there are only a couple blossoms and we don't yet know if they will make it all the way to tomatoes, but we were excited to see blossoms! We had pretty much given up on our pepper and tomato plants ever producing fruit, but we still took care of the plants. PE has been faithful and diligent in watering them and trimming down the tomato plant so it doesn't take over our second bedroom.

We had good/fast success with our green beans, so it was easy to get discouraged with the pepper and tomato plants. But even though it seemed like the pepper and tomato plants would never bear fruit, we still kept them and watered them in the hopes that they might bear fruit.

Everything grows at its own pace and not always within the timetable we had in mind, but with patience and hope we will see the fruits of our labors.