About three weeks ago I made dinner from the veggies in my garden. Almost immediately after that problems started. And although my schedule made it hard to report on my garden I was able to take some photos.
The red pepper looked ripe and ready to pick.
The squirrels must have known that too because when I came home from work it was gone. My grape tomatoes started to disappear off the plant too. Then my struggling cucumber plant managed to produce a cucumber.
Sadly I found it in they yard – picked before it was ready.
Again I blame the squirrels. But it wasn’t all the squirrels fault. The squash plants, which were struggling with mildew problems, also died. The green bean plants died too after I wasn't able to water them a few to many days in a row.
There are a few bright spots. The regular tomato plant is hanging in there.
The cherry tomato has not only taken over the garden but it has baby tomatoes.
And the jalapeños are still doing well. I'm thinking salsa when the tomatoes are ripe.
The pepper plants are still hanging in there.
Although that pepper went missing when we went out of town for a long weekend.
Today I cleaned up my garden boxes. I pulled out the dying cucumber, zucchini and green bean plants. I trimmed the dead leaves off the remaining plants, fertilized and water them.
I’m not giving up. I’m looking forward to the tomatoes and am thinking about planting more green beans in all the empty space. I’m even considering cucumbers one more time. I do think I am done with summer squash for the season.
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