Just look at those veggies!
Aren’t they wonderful!
They would even more wonderful if I grew them.
Which I didn’t.
Some came from a local farmer’s market and some from my sister. (Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!)
It’s been a very discouraging garden year.
After our early success with kale and lettuce – we have had one disappointment after another.
Massive amounts of rain drowned entire crops.
More than once.
I’ve replanted tomatoes three times and the ones in the ground now are sitting in water after the heavy rain again over the weekend.
Cut worms devastated young seedlings.
Bunnies got through our bunny-proof electric fence.
And the things that did manage to grow were choked out by weeds that grew fast and furious because of all the rain.
We mowed the garden three times and just last weekend took the weed-wacker to it.
Yep. It’s been a rough gardening year here.
At times I’ve been ready to give up.
Then I think of fresh green beans and grilled zucchini and corn on the cob smothered with butter and a crisp watermelon fresh from the patch…
…and I go out and pull some weeds and throw some more seeds in the ground.
You never know – next week might be dry.
We might have a fabulous autumn!
Maybe we’ll have a late frost!
And hope springs eternal in the heart of a gardener.
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