yucky yellow leaves

It was fated to happen. Thing were going too well: little buds on the flowers, green berries ripening slowly, green tomatoes.....now my cherry tomato plant's leaves are turning yellow with brown spots. My father (who does have a green thumb) said, "It's nothing, just pull the leaves off, unless they have any bit of green at all, then leave them on."
Yeah, but they eventually have turned yellow as well. From what I remember about botany, the plants need their leaves to collect the nutrition from the sun. Pulling off the leaves would be like pulling off my hair or something.

I mowed the lawn yesterday. Normally this is not a problem, but I think I knocked the blade down (I don't know how, but I heard a clunk when I was putting it away on Monday) and I cut the grass too short so now it's turning brown. I thought the grass was one thing I could grow....(my husband seems to think the grass was turning brown anyway and it has nothing to do with my crew cut.)

tiny tomatoes

See what benign neglect can do? First, it makes me forget I even have a blog about gardening; second, the next time I look, I see the beginnings of my harvest.
I have two very small green cherry tomatoes
I have buds for future tomatoes (both cherry-size & regular)
I have green blueberries--lots of them.
I have buds for sugar snap peas.
We ate lettuce from the garden this weekend.
How's that for a black thumb?

Waiting.....

So I think this is why I don't really do well at gardening. So much time is spent waiting for things to grow. And while I'm waiting, I can weed out all the stuff I don't want to grow. Why is it so easy to grow weeds and so difficult to grow thyme?

On the bright side, I am seeing real blueberries on the blueberry bushes. Granted, they are still green and many of them have died before becoming berries, but it's encouraging. However, I haven't seen any blackberries. That would be a big disappointment to my daughter--if we didn't get blackberries.

Maybe I should have set up sun monitors before I planted things. Apparently impatiens don't like sun, but their bed gets a lot more sun than I thought. And the tomatoes--which I thought I planted in a very sunny spot--are getting a lot less than expected. So far I've only see 2 little buds on the cherry tomato plant.

Still...the waiting....