Holy Zucchini Batman!
We arrived home late last night to find this lovely basket sitting on our table from our neighbor who had been watching one of our doggies and peeking in on the garden progress:
And the size of the zucchini…I am not sure I have ever seen such a large squash…
But boy, when I turned the corner into the garden, which of course I did at 11 PM last night just to see, I got this sight that met me…a ray of sunshine for sure…
You can see we are doing what we can to support the bee population! This wall of sunflowers looks exactly how I imagined it three months ago.
And then there is the work I will be doing today…a lot of it evidently…cause every last one of my tomato plants is on its side crying out for help desperately!
Oh my goodness what a disaster! I am thinking farmers, I mean gardeners, cannot go on vacation in August for three weeks!
The Beefstake Tomatoes in my Earth Boxes did not survive. So sad. Every year I lose them in these things, I think I give up on the Earth Box. Maybe for herbs…
So you know what I will be doing today. After breakfast somewhere like Starbucks I imagine, and a stop at the grocery store to get any sort of food put back in the house, and a trip to the garden center to get stronger stakes, I will be out there wrangling the overgrown, weedy, crazy beast of a garden!
And I will love every minute of it.
Spill it: What is the worst situation you have come home to after a vacation? (For me it was my cat that peed in middle of my bed after a ski vacation for a week)
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August 25th, 2010 at 9:46 am
Worst thing? After Sand Dunes and mountains of dirty laundry as high as the Dunes themselves, starting the washing machine and a mouse scrambling out of the machine right in front of me!! This sight always leaves one wondering… where are the others???? If there is one there are many more lurking around!! Curtis quickly found their “door” though and plugged it up. But this story is not nearly as bad as the cat pee. YUCK!
August 25th, 2010 at 9:46 am
Oh, and I LOVE your garden!!!!!
August 25th, 2010 at 11:07 am
I love your wall of sunflowers. Looks like the vegetable part will be like an egg hunt trying to find the ripe tomatoes. Oh, what I wouldn’t give to be able to plant that stuff. Looks like zucchini bread and zucchini everything in your house for awhile.
August 25th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
We have an experiment zucchini. It has been growing for over a month now and is probably as large around as Ethan… Can’t wait to harvest it and marvel at it’s size!
Awesome sunflowers!
August 26th, 2010 at 11:19 am
hmmmm worst vacation greeting was when we left for a weekend and the ice maker sprung a leak in the water tube…..came home to a first floor that was under water.