Watching our garden grow!

This has been an experiment in agriculture for sure, but I'm pretty damn tickled with the progress the garden has made in the past month. A few tiny green tomatoes were the first
to appear, and tonight I was ecstatic to see some actual minute peppers, a couple of squash, and a cute little cucumber (pickle-sized).

The cabbage will be my Achilles heel, though---see the stupid holes all over the leaves from the evil cabbage worms or loopers or whatever?? GRRRRRRR! I looked and looked and can't see any visible vermin on the leaves, but something is eating the heck out of them. So...my efforts to be completely chemical free aside, I dusted tonight using something that's relatively benign. We'll see if the cabbage recovers.

Andrew just came upstairs to get ready for bed---after a half-hour battle with James to get him to clean up his toys. His bedtime snack tonight is a little bowl of berries picked from the "nature preserve" (a.k.a., the edge of the wooded lot that we don't mow or do anything with---how ridiculously excited I was to find multiple thatches of blackberries growing back there!).