The Harvest

For the first time ever, we have…

tomatoes!  We can’t take credit.  It’s all about the bees, who have been hanging around our birdbath and evidently pollinating our plants.  Typically we eat the tomatoes as we’re walking back to the house, but there are so many that some are actually making it into salads these days.

We filled our raised bed with dirt from our compost pile, which at one point last fall contained at least five decomposing pumpkins, so pumpkin plants started appearing everywhere.  We let a few go in some empty garden space, and they have been our most successful greenery this year.  We have to trim the vines back occasionally when they try to take over our pecan tree, but for the most part we just let them be free.

And we grew an actual orange, Halloween pumpkin.

Which got about that big and then died along with all the pumpkin vines.  I don’t know if it was the heat or the combination of being both ignored and occasionally over-watered, but it’s all gone now.  It would have taken approximately 4 minutes on the internet to find out what kind of shade/sun/water needs a pumpkin has, but evidently that was beyond us.  No blue ribbons at the county fair for us.  But maybe next year…