GARDEN UPDATE: 07/14/16

I swear - our garden is on steroids this year!  Other than a planting bed of Miracle Grow Garden Dirt, the only thing we've been adding is water - and watch it grow!

Eight weeks since we planted, and we are now harvesting and enjoying:

• ​Cherry Tomatoes (the Rapunzel tomatoes are just to die for - like candy!)
• Green Sweet Bell Peppers
• ​Garden (Butter & Leaf) Lettuce
• Carrots
• Green Beans
• Yellow Beans
• Sugar Snap Peas
• Cukes
• Herbs & More Herbs!

The major difference this year is the raised garden beds and an 8-foot garden fence - it is keeping all of the deer and other garden pests out.  In past years we have had to re-plant numerous times - not at all this year!

The beans, cukes, summer squash and zucchini have climbed over and down - and THRU - the fence itself - it is the most amazing thing!

Here's a visual of our rhubarb plants - comparison from four weeks ago to today.  Usually the rhubarb is just about done thriving by now, but despite frequent picking, it is more than waist high today! 

​It has been a bumper-crop year for rhubarb cooking, baking and more jam than you can imagine!

We really are blessed this summer - it has been an optimal growing season, with cooler nights, lots of nice rain in June, and not any big storms at all. 

​We've been enjoying fresh garden salads almost every lunch and dinner - the kids are loving it!  The difference between produce grown and ripened right outside your door, and the hydroponically-grown stuff from the grocery store is just amazingly different.

​I fear we are spoiled for life now!