**Boat Garden Update**

Well today we found our first ripe cherry tomato! Thats saying a lot considering we are fighting the wind, salt air and  lack of rainwater.  So we cart our water jugs to the windmill (i.e$$. self serve water station) to get filtered water for our garden; not bad for 25 cents per gallon. However, our "big boy" tomato's flower but not setting fruit.

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. ~Author Unknown

The strawberry basket hanging from
main boom are producing a bunch of little berries soon to be sweet enough for delicious homemade strawberry shortcake! pic to come





Now about the pineapple plant; the first one I have seen and it has grown several new round rows of leaves and the fruit itself has gotten bigger.  I'm thinking pineapple upside down cake, how about you?  When the pineapple is fully grown we'll twist the leaf top off and plant it in soil and  hurry up and wait for the next one to grow.

We put our salad mix out in the sun, oops maybe a little too much sun but there better today just very young seedlings.  We mixed several different lettuce seeds to have a organic mixture, butter-crunch, spinach, romaine and black seeded Simpson.  The idea in our foot garden is when the plants are tall we cut them off at the soil line and reseed and do it again.I think it will be very tasty.