Update on My Garden

I haven't posted on the status of my garden for a while.  Sorry, I don't have pictures to share with you, I keep forgetting to bring my camera when I go to the garden.

Cucumbers were a bust this year.  We were invested with cucumber bugs and I just couldn't keep on top of them.  I ended up pulling them out of my garden.  Zucchini was the same, they didn't even make it past the initial growth stage.

I had an abundance of sugar snap peas.  They were soooo yummy.  I will definitely be growing them again next year.

Potatoes ended up with bugs as well, but I think I got them under control enough to have a crop this fall.  We'll see.

My tomato plants are overflowing!  They are just starting to ripen.  I can't wait to make some salsa and sauce to can.  YUM!

My carrots didn't get too big, but they are tasty enough.  I should have thinned them out a bit more. 

I think that I will build a bed in my own yard next year.  Part of the problem with maintenance was it being somewhere other than my house.  It would have been much easier to water and debug if I could have done it each night after work for about 10 minutes.

We've had a problem with security over at the garden as well.  Seems people are helping themselves to our gardens.  We even have a sneaky suspicion that it's our own fellow gardeners.  I, for one, have actually seen a fellow gardener help herself to someone else's garden.  I was quite shocked.  We are in the process of getting the gate fixed so it can be locked and opened only by gardeners.  If the stealing stops, then we'll know it was from either neighborhood people or possibly teenagers just being destructive.

It's been a great learning experience and I am excited to spend some time this winter planning out next year's garden...in my own yard!

Hope you are all having a wonderful day.

The sun is shining here in my little part of the world and it makes me smile.

Smile today and create your own little bit of sunshine.

God bless.