Summertime, and the living is easy

Now that its full summer, the garden is going crazy. My tomato jungle is out of control. 

That space on the right? That used to be a walkway. That space on the left? Used to be a walk way. 

I'm getting lots of cherry tomatoes right now, and finally after literally months of chasing mice out of my tomatoes, I have Roma tomatoes starting to ripen.  I can't wait until they are ready.  

In contrast to my tomato jungle, these are the tomatoes in my topsy turvey planters. 

I got these planters this year because I had way too many tomato plants that survived seed starting, and I couldn't throw the baby plants away.  Unfortunately,I am not great about watering them every day, which in the texas heat is probably why they have failed to thrive. At least now I know that these are not going to be worth the effort next year. And I can console myself by literally getting up to my ears in happy tomato plants.