Despite the extremely hot temperatures and near total lack of rainfall we are experiencing here in Houston, Texas, our square-foot garden is plugging along. It has taken some tweaking and even some fertilizer, GASP, horrible, I know. I will admit, it isn't the plush deep green abundantly producing garden we enjoyed in Holland. But it is producing...mostly cucumbers, okra, peppers, basil (more basil than one family could ever use), rosemary, thyme, sage, and Italian parsley.
Our tomatoes have never really taken off. We did have two beautiful heirloom tomatoes the size of a baseball growing on the vine. Sadly, they were there in the morning but gone in the afternoon. It doesn't appear that an animal got to them, unless this animal ate it all the way to the stem and then made it look as if it had been picked. Or if this animal used it's small opposable thumbs to pick the tomatoes and then ran off to eat them at home. I am thinking it was the gas meter reader. Alas, we will never know.
I did have a big enough harvest of cucumbers to make pickles. Sam and I worked up a batch yesterday morning. They are currently in the frig pickling. I promise pictures once they are done. But no pictures right now, 'cause they aren't pickles yet, just cucumbers sitting in a jar of salty, vinegar-y water.
Here are a few shots of our garden as it stands now.
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