The other morning Cooper & I were hanging out in the backyard and he kept running up to me saying “Green ones, green ones!” I assumed he was referring to his trucks so I brought them out for him to play with. My assumption was wrong. A few minutes later he turns the corner, runs back to me with a proud look on his face and yells, “GREEN ONES GREEN ONES!” It was then that I realized he was talking about my GREEN TOMATOES waiting patiently to ripen on the vine. Little bubbs then says “Grapes! grapes! grapes!” He proceeds to smoosh them in his hands and then runs away. Whoa. I was stunned. Goodbye green tomatoes. I worked hard all summer for you….I now see why my grandparents were super pissed when my brothers and I would pick off buds from their plants. GAHH!!!
So let’s talk about the current status of my garden….
A few SUPER hot days and the leaves on my tomatoes are wilty. There’s lots of tomatoes waiting to ripen.
But fall is coming and I am kinda over the whole taking care of plants phase….
The basil was doing until I went to Seattle. They sprouted flowers and now they look very less than.
I’ve been on top of the flowering situation all summer, which is why they got so big! I realized that I was sort of hoarding the plants. I wanted to see how big I could grow them instead of actually using them in my cooking.
Pesto is going to be happening soon! I swear.
I came to the conclusion that it’s futile to grow parsley and cilantro. Lesson learned.
However, I did learn that parsley blooms. It’s pretty. That was worth the energy. But next year? Nah.
I inadvertently covered my strawberry plant to block Cooper from getting at the tomatoes. The shade from the barrier encouraged the strawberries to grow! The lesson here is that strawberries can’t handle full sun in the area I put them in.
My thyme thrived. I’ve got TONS of thyme. They are soo going into stews this winter!
Maybe I’ll make a thyme simple syrup for Christmas gifts?
The nasturtiums bloomed their asses off. I used them as an aphid trap to prevent the bugs from attacking my tomatoes.
It worked!
So this was the garden at it’s prime:
The basil was SOOO lush. I was really proud of what happened.
This is what it looked like at the beginning of the summer:
Now that autumn is coming all the leaves are turning yellow. There’s leaves from the trees scattered all over out backyard. There’s a chill in the air…
Lettuce growing season is coming up soon! That means I can mark down something off my 31 list!
For those of you who are just joining us this was my garden at the START here’s the MIDDLE …MORE MIDDLE and perhaps this post is the end?
How did your garden fare this summer?! Send me pics!!
