I had been getting a little frustrating with our gardening attempts, because it seems every year is a little worse than the one before. But I've also learned there are just too many variables to really figure it out. For example, we've been putting tomatoes in the same spot year after year. Some years we've had quite the bounty while others we've had nada.
So this year we tried our usual - no-fail zucchini, tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, peppers, eggplant, various lettuces, and butternut squash. Our newbies this year were cantaloupe, sweet potatoes, and a separate kale garden. With our wet spring the garden was looking pretty dismal, because we just didn't have the sun or heat they needed. Then came July and the heat, and everything flourished! Our tomatoes went bonkers. I was making salsa almost daily and even got a few batches of homemade spaghetti sauce. Our cucumbers took off as well, so I knew I had to learn how to can and pickle some batches so they'd be eaten. Success! I forgot how much I just love to park myself in the kitchen all afternoon and cook.
So now that it's the beginning of November we finally had to take it all down, but until now we've still been getting juicy, ripe tomatoes. Here's one of the plants almost falling over from all the tomatoes!
Our 1 cantaloupe we harvested. A lot of work for only 1, so we had to savor it, but it tasted amazing!
Our "kale box", which was handy for all our smoothies and kale salads. I was able to freeze the remaining plants for future smoothies!
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