We ended up loving our garden too much and I guess it gave our tomatoes Buckeye Rot. Sadly, I had to dispose of about 60% of our current crop. Of course it just started raining, so I’m not sure what’ll happen. They did have a few days to dry out once we realized what was happening, but I’m skeptical.

I guess it is possible to love your garden too much!

Wow, I forgot how much I love to grow food. It’s amazing the amount of pride I have in this small endeavor, and how much enjoyment I get out of seeing new growth everyday. The butternut squash seem to double each night. That’s awesome, unless you’re a sweet pepper and you’re trying to grow next to them. Yes, I planted too close I fear, and I’m not sure what I should do. Maybe just get a pot for the little pepper so that it may thrive!

This weekend I ate stuff that I had a hand in growing! I had minty sweet iced tea AND I made the lovely (and I do mean LOVELY) pizza in a cast iron pan pictured below. Ok so I’ve only been able to use herbs so far, but how cool is that? Ooh and I made a banana blueberry bread that was divine. The bananas had gone really far so they were nice and oily, and the blueberry gives it just the right tang. Yum!

P.S. Pizza in a cast iron pan might be the most delicious thing I’ve ever eaten.

Lunch today was delicious. Montage. Smoked cheddar w/chicken, Rainier beer and a side of tomatoes. Yes, I live on the edge.
Also, I got my camera back and have a few new pics of the garden, and last but not least, check out these vicious vicious beasts!

Yay! I get to have a garden this year! A very sweet person has given up some space in his front yard AND gone to the trouble to build and fill 2 lovely raised garden beds for me!

This year’s lineup will include:
TONS of tomatoes (cross your fingers!), both cherry and large sizes
hot thai peppers
some lovely red flowers, can’t recall their type
watermelon
PUMPKINS!
cucumber
yellow squash
mint

There are several other things I’ve either purchased and forgotten or mean to purchase and plant soon. Want to get these things into the ground and see what it looks like first. If it weren’t so wet outside I’d probably be elbow deep in the garden right now! But, alas, it is most likely too wet to even get started as I’ll have to finish filling the beds and such, don’t want to drown the little plants on the first day, right?

Whee!