Brief Garden Update

Hello! It has been a busy busy summer. We are going to try and catch you all up on craft and music stuff in the next few days. This post is about our garden. All in all, we've had a more bountiful year than last year, with lots of tomatoes. If you will remember, we planted 4 tomato plants, 1 in the topsy turvy and 3 in the ground. All the tomato plants seem to be taking their time in the fruit ripening department, but we have lots and lots of tomatoes to look forward to. We've had one banana and jalepeno pepper each, and both of our bell pepper plants have a pepper on them, but the plants themselves are pretty runty and I don't know if we'll get any edible peppers this year. The biggest disappointment has been the cucumbers. Last year we had more cucumbers than we knew what to do with, made lots of cucumber sandwiches and a huge batch of relish. This year we have had no edible cucumbers and the plants all look really bad. One theory is that they thrive in rocky sandy soil, and since we improved the quality of the soil so much this year, they are not taking kindly to it. Who knows.

Some tasty produce (except the cucumber, which was too hard and not edible)