Monday, June 11, 2012

I guess you can say my garden is doing well this year.  I just pulled a 4.5 pound zucchini.  It had gotten up against the sideboard of the raised bed and missed for a while. 

I'm still battling cancer (it came back in January and I won't find out if it's in remission again until my insurance company allows another PET scan).  I only planted a little, so I would be able to manage it.  We had plans of adding a couple more raised beds, but decided against it.  I planted green beans (which I've had about 5 meals for a family of four and just gave a quart bag to my in-laws), cucumber (big harvest, also gave 4-5 to my in-laws), 2 zucchini plants, and one tomato.  I planted about 6 tomatoes but only one came up.  I've made zucchini bread and had zucchini on the grill at least 5 times.  I planted strawberries, from Big Lots, but they all died.  My brother-in-law gave us two seedless blackberry bushes and a blueberry bush.  The harvest this year has only been good enough to let my son eat a few as they come ready.  I planted the two blackberries where there wasn't enough sun and they almost died.  I moved them, and about half came back (of each plant).  Hopefully next year will be better.

One of my "cucumber" plants ended up being a cantaloupe.  I don't know if it was volunteer in the compost or a miss filed seed from the heritage seeds.  It's got a little 2 inch cantaloupe and a tiny one about a half inch.

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