garden update

It's been a while since I posted anything about our garden. It's been a lot of fun keeping up this summer and we've enjoyed being able to walk outside and pick fresh vegetables for supper. If you have the littlest backyard (or even porch) I would totally recommend trying to plant a few things - it's worth the time and money and you learn so much!

We're still getting a ton of tomatoes (if the squirrels, birds or rats don't get them first), green and red peppers, cucumbers, toxic jalapeno peppers, and a few more squash and zucchini. We'll be harvesting the butter beans any day now too.

Just from this year I've learned so much and know what to do better for next year. I didn't plan out the placement of the vegetables too well. A couple of our cucumber and pepper plants got blocked from the sun because of some tomato plants. I also should have thinned out our zucchini and squash a lot more too.

In order to have a more continuous harvest, I now know to not plant all the seeds at the same time. For instance, our green beans and lettuce all came in at once and we just had way too much of both in a short amount of time. So next year I'll plant a few seeds in a 2-week interval, which should prevent an overabundance of veggies and we can enjoy eating fresh lettuce and green beans over a longer period of time.