Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Garden Variety

I just wanted to show off my garden produce as this is my first year gardening on my own. We are getting daily tomatoes and Andrew is enjoying them on his salads. The broccoli is not half bad. Then there is the zucchini. This zucchini has a story. We were gone on vacation and I had not checked the plants in about a week. I recently lost one of my zucchini plants to rot as we have had so much rain and sitting water. The 2 plants I had left were not producing like the one that died. I went out to check the plants today for zucchini. All I could fin on my "non-productive plant" was one the size of my finger. After staring at the plant for several minutes and lifting leaves, my eyes finally focused on this big guy. No WONDER I wasn't getting a big yield; all it's efforts were put on this one zucchini. To my surprise, nothing had eaten at this thing before I found it. We were only able to eat half of it tonight. Considering I haven't used any fertilizer, it is not half bad!!!

1 comment:

Jan said...

Nice garden produce! Those zucchinis have a way of doing that! I haven't grown such nice looking broccoli.