I had a no doubt pregnancy hormone driven garden panic a few weeks ago when it seemed like the weeds were completely taking over, and my very tiny efforts to control them weren't working. Because seriously, staying on top of weeding while being increasingly pregnant and chasing a two year old is very challenging. We decided to see if we could find anyone to hire for a few hours a week to help, and man was that a good idea. The garden looks amazing now, I've had time to harvest and do a full round of succession planting for the fall, and now when I go outside I feel happy about the garden instead of stressed. In fact, it looks EVEN BETTER than in these pictures because our lifesaving helpers has done even more work since I took these.
I am regretting that we didn't attempt tomatoes and zucchini, and feel like we have way too many cucumbers that I have no interest in eating or pickling, but again, pregnancy. We've had great broccoli, chard, kale, peas, green beans, herbs, and are starting to get the first eggplants. After the massive weeding effort we uncovered some surprisingly happy looking onions, and have done the full potato and garlic harvest. Amazingly, we are in great farming shape. We need to get on the Japanese Beetle situation as we're losing lots of raspberries, but it looks like that may be a task we save for next year.
We still have the accidental rooster, as so far Casper is the only interested party, and I feel like somehow letting him have the rooster might set us back on the whole concept of reinforcing to him that I don't want him to kill chickens.
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| "I can take care of the rooster, mom." |
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| Pineapple tomatillos |
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| Broccoli |
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| Chard and Kale planted late last summer and still going strong |
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| Cutting garden |
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| Cutting garden |
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| Lovely weed-free pole beans, root parsley, and melon vines that are refusing to flower or fruit in the background |
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| Gorgeous!!! |
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| Purple asparagus |
