Midsummer's Garden

If we've learned one thing from our first foray into gardening, its that we need a bigger garden. Just about everything grew much more than we expected. The mutant lettuce, especially the red mustard, grew several feet high and caused the smaller plants nearby to miss out on some sunshine and we had some rotting going on down low. Our tomatoes far exceeded our expectations and the five plants have merged into one big tomato bush. The zucchini plant already popped out a very unexpected baby and many more are on the way. The strawberries, though not giving us huge batches of fruit this year, are definitely doing well and should provide some good eating next year. The peppers, the eggplants... they look pretty sickly but we'll see if they give us anything to eat. The bay laurel tree we planted to fill a spot in the hedge is doing very well -- I've already used the leaves a few times for some good English cooking.



Next year, if our situation holds out, the garden will undoubtedly be a bit bigger and we'll give our crops some more room to enjoy this lovely English weather.