Photo Tour of Growth Aug 22

As a budding gardener, I take a good bit of joy in seeing the literal fruits of my labor. I could go on in too many words about the things I find in my garden. However, I find that in this territory, sometimes pictures do a better job.

Every so often we'll take a small photo tour of the growth I'm seeing.

Trials and Tribulations of Heat

As many of you may or may not know, our area has been awfully hot as of late. In fact, not long after we started our little garden and were happy to have wonderful sprouts, the heat set in. Meaning that most of my after school, evening, daytime, and all other time was spent trying to save our sprouts from becoming crispy.

A large water bill and lots of rain catching buckets later, we have had some luck.

Our garden brought in some small but tasty potatoes, some wonderful green beans, as well as a couple of cucumbers.

Our cucumbers however were all yellow, which I've found out since then to be from too much water. Our fault entirely. The tomatoes next to them and the jalapeno plants loved the nearly daily watering, but the cukes...not so much.


Ah well, it's a learning year anyway. We really want to know what grows best where in our yard and what doesn't. Next year the squash, cucumber and zucchini will all have it's own bed.


Otherwise several things have hung on through the unbearable heat and have started back up. One lone tomato is trying to turn red. The okra has started producing and I cannot wait to enjoy a batch of that.