• Home
• About
• Blog Roll

Bragging time
August 11, 2008

If you are a seasoned gardener, you will laugh at my misplaced exuberance. But hey, this is my first year and a few months ago, I could not tell the difference between a squash leaf and a melon leaf. More laughing at my expense, yeah, yeah.

But we are seeing the fruit of our labor. The corn is not quite there yet, but in a few weeks, these fragile and thin-looking ears of corn will be consumed with great enthusiasm. We are a little crazy about corn around here.

These are our baby melons. They may look like mature watermelons and cantaloupes. But remember that camera adds 10 pounds? They are only a little bigger than a decent sized egg. But aren’t they cute?

Here are our consistently flowering and fruiting strawberries. Every week, the six plants provide us a pint of strawberries. For the first year, I suppose it’s not too shabby. You natural green thumbs, humor me, for once?

Our carrots have come and gone. They were sort of deformed, stretching and bulging in all sorts odd directions. I happily ate them in a big bowl of salad nonetheless.

Tomatoes are late this year, though they are forming little green orbs. We did leave the plants alone for a whole month, leaving them to the sole care of a hastily rigged and barely working automatic sprinkler system. It was a miracle that most of them even survived.

Zucchinis and squashes are flowering; those will be on the bragging list for next week.

CindyW at Organicpicks

If you enjoyed this entry, please subscribe to the Organic Picks Blog

Copyright 2007 Organicpicks