Growing

Since so many of you grow fruits and/or vegetables in your own yards, I thought I'd share some of our crops this year. I failed to take photos when everything was in full bloom, but this gives you some idea of what we've got going. My husband and daughter start everything from seed in early March and transplant everything outdoors in mid-May.

On the deck, we have three containers of spinach and assorted lettuce. Once the June crop is gone, they plant more. This is what we have right now.

Assorted peppers that did not do well this year.
 

Green beans always do well for us. This is another second round of the harvest.
 

 

It was also a good year for cucumbers.

Not a good year for zucchini. We didn't get one. We did have
a few yellow squash.

We grow a variety of tomatoes in pots, both on the deck and behind the garden fencing. As you can see, the cherry tomatoes grow very tall. A bumper crop this year. For some reason, it amuses me when my daughter talks about the different ones . . . Patio Princess, Jellybean Hybrid, and Bush Big Boy.

Speaking of big boys, here's another one . . . my grandson was born a few weeks ago. He weighed in at 8 pounds 8 ounces and was 21 inches long. All of us are quite smitten with him!