This year has been hard in the garden. The season has been extremely shortened, it rained, flooded, and didn't really warm up until June. Now it is September and it is starting to cool down fast! Still no pumpkins yet, and my runner beans are having a hard time, but everything else seems to be doing okay. So far this year I have harvested:
Fairy tale eggplant....they taste so good and they don't take as long to ripen as the large eggplant.
Onions: They are tiny but full of flavor! Hopefully next year I will grow normal sized onions. This is my second year and I have definitely improved but still not quite there yet.
Cayenne peppers: This is just the full harvest with plenty more to come. I also have jalapeno, and poblano peppers on the way! It's funny I have a hard time with everything but peppers. Maybe when I married my husband, (who is Mexican) his heritage spilled into me haha!
In the morning I have started eating egg white omelets with stuff harvested from the garden. My favorite one so far is with tomatoes and basil.....I have so much basil!!!! I am going to make pesto soon.
I was also very successful with my garlic. I was really worried last year after I planted it in November. There was a small warm spell and some of the garlic sprouted. Turned out it didn't effect the garlic to sprout before winter.
My front garden is finally starting to fill out. A lot of the flowers are starting to lose there color but some are still pretty vibrant!
This summer I also filled the rose garden with rock. It looks a lot better and hopefully it will keep that crazy snake grass down!
This year because of the shortened growing season all of my squash and pumpkin are having issues. This makes me really sad cause I love squash and pumpkins! Oh well I still have hope! The snow isn't on the ground yet!
