Bounty

Behold! Our bounteous... bounty!

Ya.

The wee silly garden is still spitting out veg like a Pez dispenser. (ok. maybe not like a Pez dispenser. But that would be cool).

This weekend we had a near-ripe tomato that I plucked before the herbivorous chipmunks sank their teeth into it, as well as five or so near-ripe cucumbers. I'm still astonished that anything had a chance to ripen considering we were so late putting it all into the ground. The baby carrots are still premies, so we'll leave them a while longer before trying to harvest them. I figure we've easily got a half dozen cucumbers still to go. I don't know when we'll next be at the cottage, or if there will be an intervening frost.

Frost + cucumbers = cucumber goo.

If we make it back to the cottage again before the frost hits, we should have 3 or 4 more tomatoes, too.

All things considered, the garden was a very successful experiment. We're already talking about expanding the garden next year to include more space for the tomatoes and to include sweet peppers next time as well. Maybe some green or yellow beans, too, if we have the space.

Cucumber salad, here we come!