Garden Update

This is our tomato/pepper/herb bed. We got tons of tomatoes although the skins were a little tough. Basil plants went crazy.

I can't find the picture of the squash/potato bed I thought I took. It was huge! We also had hundreds of beetle like bugs that loved the squash plants. Our spagetti squash cross pollinated with our zucchini- so the spagetti had green stripes but tasted fine. Skins on the yellow squash and zucchini were tough if we didn't pull them when they were small.

Potatoes were fun to plant and delicious! The plants were pretty with dark green leaves, we will do those again.

When we bought our plants in February we wanted to do tomatillos, but couldn't find any plants only seeds. We planted them then forgot we did it. They took forever to come up. When we finished our lettuce and pulled the pea plants that didn't survive very far into the summer, the tomatillos finally started getting big. As you can see the plants are huge with tons of blossoms... but no fruit. This weekend we did see three little tomatillos, so we will see what it ends up producing. Little onions on the left.

On the right is our six month investment in asparagus- it keeps growing!

Our cucumbers were fun to do, but the little cucumbers hide. Then all of a sudden you look and they are bigger than your hand! This is the plant after we found the gopher holes in the bed, I wonder if it would have lasted longer if we didn't have gophers?

We made 10 or 12 quarts of pickles, half dill spears and half sweet chips. We might research different recipes for next time though. Yum!

When we found the gopher holes the kids pulled the rest of the carrots and we tried to flood the gopher out. We put the hose into the hole for at least 15 min and it never flooded the bed. So....I think we have some pretty deep tunnels under our yard! This weekend we found holes in our tomato bed. We will see what happens.