the Garden

I've been meaning to post some pictures of our garden now for a while. We love our community garden. For $70 for the year, and very minimal work (we weed for about an hour once a week, we don't water at all) we have a nice little 600 ft plot all our own. Here are our gigantic sunflowers.

And the corn!

And our little helper tending to the zucchini plants. I much prefer this to her usual form of "helping" which is running away through other people's plots.

Charlie remains fairly quiet and lets me pull weeds as long as he is snuggled up in the sling.

Sometimes Lucy comes dangerously close to picking other people's produce. Here she is going after some tomatoes that do not belong to us.

Here is a look at most of our garden. Sunflowers on the left. On the bottom are a couple of yellow squash and a sweet pumpkin plant. Above that is 4 zucchini plants. Some basil is growing amongst that. The corn in on the right. You can't see it but on the bottom right are green beans, that have sadly taken a turn for the worse.

Before the beans failed though, we managed to get several good pounds of beans:

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot the wheatgrass.

The enemy. Stink bugs. They are horrible. Watch out midwest because they are coming your way. They are extremely prolific and they have yet to figure out a way to get them under control. If you kill them, they let off a smell that attracts more of them. Through the garden e-mail list-serve, we learned that the only good way to at least make an effort at controlling them is to flick them in a jar of soap water. That can be tedious work though. They are everywhere!

But we like the bees. Bees are good.

We really have had a good time growing our little "lazy" garden, and are about to plant some fall crops (lettuce, kale, beets, etc).