Garden Update

Since I last updated the garden, things have changed a lot.  We went through a massive heat wave in the middle of the summer where temperatures were in the upper 90s and low 100s for a few straight weeks.  I think this stunted our garden a bit.  The plants started growing aaaaand didn't do much.  They weren't growing that big and they weren't producing fruit.
























These were our pole beans:

Demon beans

These were our green beans and their beans:

Our tomato plants were sitting all nice and pretty in their wittle cages:














Here are our baby zucchinis:














Here is daddy cutting our first inaugural  zucchini lol:

Action shot!  (staged)

Smile for the camera Daddy!

Then the heat went away and BOOM!
I could no longer walk into the garden.


















I could no longer walk around in the garden.



























Aisles, what aisles?!?






































Remember those little tomato plants?  Well they have now grow over their cages and over and down on top of the zucchinis!


















Side Note:

Let us stop for a moment and acknowledge the fact that I finally was able to grow a big tomato!  For ever dad has only wanted to grow little cherry tomatoes, mainly because he eats them like candy.  Walk through the kitchen to the laundry room, pop a tomato or two.  Walk from the laundry room through the kitchen, pop a tomato.  Stand in the kitchen and watch as Sarah and I cook dinner, pop, pop, pop.  He just can't pop big tomatoes as easily into his mouth.  So we've never grown large tomatoes, but I'm TIRED of cherry tomatoes.  Sure it's nice to go into the garden and harvest fifty million but they're so easy!  You plop the plants in the ground, water them, and voila, tomatoes.  It's not like the big tomatoes are taken care of any differently, but I feel like I've accomplished more since the big tomato is about 40 times larger than the little cherry tomatoes :)

I shall call him mongo.

Ok, back on the subject of the garden.  Well it grew and grew and grew, but to my frustration we weren't getting that many vegetables.  I blame the heat, I think it stunted the plants in their initial fruit producing stages.

I'd also like to admit that I'm not the most . . . um . . . accepting person when it comes to production.  My motto: if you're gonna stay, you're gonna work.  And the beans were not working.  Remember those pole beans barely brushing the bottom of the poles?  Well they grew taller than the 6' poles, tall enough to fall over, after which they started to twine around the tomatoes and the sunflowers and anything within reach, which created quite the maze.  Not only did they grow and grow and grow, but they produce one dang bean, not one and I gave them MONTHS to come up to scratch.  Months I tell yeah!

So I ripped them out.

And I ripped out the zucchinis because they had vine bores and leaf mold.

Let me tell you this REALLY opened up the garden and I could breath again.

















Don't worry, it's only August and won't get really cold for another two months.  So . . .

I planted them again!

Here are the baby zucchinis sprouting:














And here are the baby beans (above which I PROMISE to build a trellis so they can actually grow tall and not fall over):














The tomatoes are still growing big and strong.














And they are still massive and falling over, but I can live with this.
I only have to army crawl underneath the plants to rescue the ripe tomatoes through spider webs and the like.  No biggy. Cough cough.

Overgrown tomatoes

So there you have it folks, the last few months of the garden.  It started at the beginning and has now come full circle!