Today, we picked our last prize from the
garden Lyle and the kids planted back in May. Although it was a terrible gardening season around here...40 days of 110 temps=poor produce production... I thought I would share with you our spoils.
The tomato plants were the first to shoot up so we got stakes to tie them to so they wouldn't fall to the ground. So far so good...cucumbers and watermelons were growing nicely. Strawberries never sprouted...not sure what happened to those.
Then one day there was a tiny tomato!!! It was the talk of the day around the Burdine house!
It was growing nicely until Ella brought it in the house one day....Luke picked it a bit too early but we put it on the window sill and it turned red and juicy! Yummy!!
I was so looking forward to many many more but soon after this picture the tomatoes got blythe and had to be pulled. Bummer! We tried to plant more and they were growing nicely but then a big green monster stripped them clean of all their leaves and they just never bloomed again.
With one down and the hot weather setting in, we started to get a bit nervous that nothing else would grow. Then the cucumbers took off! We were very proud of our first picking!
We got about 8 cucumbers in all but must have missed this guy because by the time we found him he was huge!!
During the cucumber excitement, we discovered our watermelons were starting to develop. We had lots at first but with the hot weather they just never grew too big. But finally as it started to cool off we had one that hung in there and got pretty big. We started to worry though after it didn't change in size for about two weeks so we decided today to go ahead and pick it.
We were very excited so we quickly cracked that baby open to see.....
nothing:( No sweet melon tonight kids!
That wraps up our gardening season. Hopefully we will have better luck next year!
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