A Pleasant Surprise

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Just last night I had dinner with a good friend of mine and she mentioned she checked my gardening blog.  It has been a while since I blogged anything about gardening.  And so she urged me to continue to update it.  I was so busy with work that I was unable to attend to my garden.  Fortunately our maid at home have the green thumb. 

So when I visited our garden this afternoon I was pleasantly surprised that my garden has some vegetables growing...

Some tomatoes... 


 Harvested some good-sized tomatoes too....

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