Summer's Bounty Enjoyed!


Well, we tried a garden again this year.....
DH fenced in a small area in June and I planted.

I bought 6 tomatoes, 3 bell peppers, 2 habaneros, 2 kinds of basil, zucchini & marigold plants from the nursery and planted potato & sweet potato eyes, and cilantro, parsley, cucumbers, nasturtium, and sun flowers from seed.

The initial 3 pepper plants didn't do well and I picked up some extras in July.
The tomatoes did well initially, but didn't like being on the ground (no cages this year) and just didn't do well over-all. They did however give us some fruit....and all of it was eaten up by a very happy 3 year-old!
The sunflowers were eaten - presumably by deer - every time they got as high as the fence line. They did end up blooming, but close to the ground and very small flowers....
The cukes looked like they'd do well even though they were planted late, but then we got the August rains and unseasonably cool weather at night and they faded.......
We did harvest a TON of basil, some zucchini and some cilantro as well as some small potatoes and a couple of habaneros.

The LATE bell pepper plants produced a few peppers..one of which has been plucked and eaten by the same happy 3 year-old, in apple-like fashion (aka IRON CHEF-Style).

I planted some lettuce in August and am eagerly awaiting the time when it can be picked for a dinner salad..........
So, the 2006 experiment was a success - if only in the education it gave the young'ns, and in that it got mommy back into the habit.....
Next year Iwill
- start earlier
- get a taller fence
- and water more frequently during the dry spells!