Garden Updates

Once again, we have attempted greatness when it comes to gardening. Those of you who know us...Well, you know that greatness may be far fetched. We have had our share of ups and downs over the years...Great successes (pumpkins) and great failures (cucumbers as round as baseballs and awful tasting)! We are also short on space, but we do the best we can with what we have...Our garden is made of two sections...One of which is about 24 square feet and the other about 16 square feet. Honestly, this sounds bigger than it really is!

This year, Alex, Julia, and I were on top of our plan early! We picked up seeds for watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumbers, green beans, and sunflowers. Daddy prepped our garden and we planted our seeds and the tomato plants and eggplant starters we picked up at a local garden store the week Daddy was in New York. It was hard to find room to plant all of our wonderful choices in about 40 square feet, but we made it happen. This is how it happened..."Oh, we're supposed to plant the green beans 12 inches apart?? Well, 6 inches will just have to do!"

When it was all said and done, we ended up with 4 tomato plants (an Abe Lincoln, an Heirloom, a Cherry, and a Roma...The Roma was given to us by a neighbor when she ran out of room in her own garden), 1 eggplant, about 10 green bean plants, about 6 cucumber plants, about 4 watermelon plants (1 also shared by a friend of Daddy's), about 4 cantaloupe plants, 4 sunflowers, red leaf lettuce (in our flower pots), and two random pumpkins (More stray seeds left behind from previous years...Who are we to mess with destiny?). As you can tell from our pictures, our garden is a bit of a jungle and the vines are now starting to climb and trail the fence...We wouldn't have it anyway. It has provided us with a wonderful bounty! We have already been able to enjoy the lettuce and should be able to enjoy green beans this week...with tomatoes, cucumbers, sunflower seeds, and eggplant soon to come! Cross your fingers that we start seeing progress with the watermelon and cantaloupe!

Eggplant

Heirloom Tomatoes

Cherry Tomatoes

The tiniest little green beans you have ever seen!

Pumpkin