The garden

One of the delights of our summer has been our little garden in the raised beds Chris built during the Great Unemployment. This has been my most successful attempt ever at growing things, and Josh and I examine the beds almost daily for new vegetables. Today was our biggest daily haul so far: one squash, one cherry tomato and one cucumber.

It's certainly not enough to supply us with vegetables for the summer, but the kids have been more willing to try things like tomatoes, pesto (made from basil in the garden) and okra because we grew them ourselves, and now they have a better understanding of where some of their food comes from. We have ambitious plans to plow up a corner of the yard this fall or next spring to make room for more vegetables.

Josh is pointing to a very small okra in the middle of the picture