I hope you're not expecting much because I've got to say that this years garden has been a real disappointment.
I have a number of reasons for the failures but will focus instead on the things that we did get.
Checking out the salad bar one day there were 2 different lettuces, parsley, pea pods and one pathetic little radish. Hardly enough to really interest the rabbits but we enjoyed it.
We often go out to the garden for morning coffee and can't resist picking a bit of lunch on the way back to the house.
Some of the green beans and yellow wax beans are finally getting big enough to pick and I can't mention those without showing you how amazing the plants are. I just love the delicate flowers on these, don't you.
It just goes to show that even a less than successful garden can still surprise and delight.
Here's a note card I made from an old photo and a new colored pencil drawing.
The tomatoes are finally getting ready to ripen so I'm pretty excited about that.
With such a small container garden there hasn't been a lot of anything to harvest but I do enjoy grabbing a few ripe cherry tomatoes as I water mt plants.
We do have more Black raspberries than we'll ever get around to picking so we are letting a few neighbors come in and help themselves to some.
I do harbor a faint hope that this will also encourage them to want to help me take care of the garden as well but so far I've had no luck with that.
There have only been enough green beans for meals twice or three times so far. I'll have to be sure to plant more of them next year.
We've picked raspberries a number of times and made jam once. We'll be doing a lot more of that as the season progresses.
