As you can see from the pictures our garden was an overwhelming success. We have really enjoyed going to the garden to get our salad makings. The cucumbers and tomatoes have done very well.
We have made many salads, batches of fresh salsa, and Retta's favorite...refrigerator pickles. She earned the right to use a sharp kitchen knife to cut her own cucumbers, so the more pickles she makes, the more she gets to use her knife.
The last several weeks the garden has been overtaken by bugs and I have exhausted the natural tricks to try to control them. It has been just too hot and humid. The bugs are wild (and now the lizards and snakes). They have pretty much devoured what was left of the garden, except the hot pepper plants. I gave up the fight. I think we were all growing a little tired of caring for the garden, so it is time to give it to the bugs.
Ummm...that acorn squash, baked with brown sugar and butter (the comfort food version), was sooo good. It healed my weary soul.
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