Our Growing Garden

Our garden has been great again this summer!  We've been enjoying lots of zucchini and tomatoes, green beans, and finished up the lettuce, cucumber, and strawberries.  It's always an adventure seeing what grows well, what doesn't, and figuring out how to improve for next year.  This year we still had too many zucchini, even though we only had 3 plants. 

 

 

Our crazy zucchini (probably have had about 100 zucchini total).  There's only so much zucchini bread you can make.....

Here's our overgrown tomatoes.  Each year we buy new supports, but they never seem to hold up to our "super tomatoes".  We're not complaining though - they are amazingly yummy.  This year the girls have enjoyed picking and eating the cherry tomatoes.  They've become quite the gardeners!

 Our largest tomato - actually the largest I've ever seen.  Our beefsteaks have been so yummy too!

 We've enjoyed the garden so much, we figured we should add more garden boxes, so this weekend Steve started building two more boxes.  Woohoo!  Next year we'll add onions and potatoes!  The bigger the garden, the better!

We're still waiting to see how the pumpkins do.  One of the plants has died, but we have another holding on and growing like crazy.  We've had a few pumpkins, but they rot out before they ripen.  So bummed, because I was most looking forward to the pumpkins and freezing it for pie, pancakes, and bread.  Maybe next year.........