Garden Update

OK, my lack of interest in the garden has waned some. I am not as obsessive as I was in the spring, but I am able to remember to water and have started taking part in the harvest.

What's really funny is that the garden bed I sweated and toiled over has been abandoned!



The tomatoes and zucchinis have all wandered off.



They're still there -- they've just decided that they want to see the sights. ;)



That was not something I expected.

Anyway, we have had a reasonable amount of broccoli and a couple of cauliflower, we have had some very nice carrots and we're overwhelmed with zucchini and tomatoes. (I still haven't found the perfect zucchini bread recipe, but we've started experimenting with shredding the zucchini and freezing it. If that works, then we're home free. The cabbage in the pot is looking happy as can be, though the ones on the ground are definitely the worse for wear. The butternut squash looks like it's going great guns -- we have tried one and it was delicious. Another awaits us on the counter and about 20 of them are growing and ripening on the vine. There is no sign of the eggplant and the buttercup squashes don't seems to have born fruit -- even the one we saw seems to have disappeared. It remains to be seen how the sweet potatoes have done. They look small, but healthy. Maybe they'll have "set fruit" and wee can enjoy them in a few weeks.

(Too many tomatoes? Easy! Between BLTs, spaghetti sauce, lasagna, and a million other fun recipes, we haven't exhausted our creativity and we also plan to can some.)