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Not So Secret Garden

For the last few years, we have planted a vegetable garden outside our house. Each Spring we get so excited about home-grown vegetables that we purchase too many tomato, pepper and cucumber plants only to have a jungle of which to navigate later in the season. If you need a reminder, click here to see the garden in full harvest mode last summer.

This year, more restraint was issued and we limited ourselves to seven tomato plants, three cucumber and five pepper plants in a few varieties.

This is what it looked like as of this morning.

Veggie garden The two cherry tomato plants are growing splendidly.
TomatoesThe cucumbers are ready to reach out and climb along the fence.Cucumbers growing The strawberries are coming in nicely. The reason you don't see any is that Troy, Tim and I picked the dozen or so that were there yesterday, ate them on the spot. Strawberries growing I quietly enjoyed a silent score update of Deb 1 Squirrels 0 before we ate them. This is the first year I can remember actually eating a strawberry from this pot because the #(*%#@ squirrels or birds always got to them first.

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Not So Secret Garden

For the last few years, we have planted a vegetable garden outside our house. Each Spring we get so excited about home-grown vegetables that we purchase too many tomato, pepper and cucumber plants only to have a jungle of which to navigate later in the season. If you need a reminder, click here to see the garden in full harvest mode last summer.

This year, more restraint was issued and we limited ourselves to seven tomato plants, three cucumber and five pepper plants in a few varieties.

This is what it looked like as of this morning.

Veggie garden The two cherry tomato plants are growing splendidly.
TomatoesThe cucumbers are ready to reach out and climb along the fence.Cucumbers growing The strawberries are coming in nicely. The reason you don't see any is that Troy, Tim and I picked the dozen or so that were there yesterday, ate them on the spot. Strawberries growing I quietly enjoyed a silent score update of Deb 1 Squirrels 0 before we ate them. This is the first year I can remember actually eating a strawberry from this pot because the #(*%#@ squirrels or birds always got to them first.