Garden Update

Daniel and I sometimes struggle to find our balance together outside. I want to weed or water and he wants to go on a walk to steal the water hose. I try to engage him as much as possible, but often we deal more with controlling tantrums and tears than wire grass and rogue tomato sprouts. One activity that never seems to fail us is finding the garden paths and taking turns walking down them. The tightly planted corn is now well over Daniel's head and makes for good exploring. A bottle of juice and snack also does wonders for the attitude.

The garden is growing vigorously, and my red tomato plants already have softball-sized tomatoes that I am just waiting on to ripen. The yellow zucchini seems to give me a pair of six inch ripe squash each morning, and the crookneck squash are producing large numbers of tiny little squash that I cannot keep up with. The strawberries are producing a second batch of flowers and my small herb garden is completely overgrown. Sometimes you find the perfect spot to grow something, and after last year's many wrong spots, I'm encouraged to see my plants doing well. I owe much of the success to the hours my husband spent tilling and shoveling much and compost for me. Our next step is to buy a grill so that we can do some shishkabobs as our veggies ripen. Our two portable gas camp stoves rusted out two years ago, and Joe says the $40 charcoal grill has bit the dust as well. Is anyone looking to unload a used but functional gas grill still in good repair? We might be interested!