It always starts out so innocent. Look at these cute little baby plants!
Liz's veggie garden, May 2009
I planted these just a few days before I took these photos. 3 tomato plants, 4 pots of delicate, almost pathetic looking cucumbers, and some beans and corn.
Itty bitty tomatoes and cucumbers
I lost all the beans and one of the cucumber sets. I never got around to replanting. A pity about the beans, though I’m enjoying my mom’s surplus and the farmer’s market offerings.
Given what’s happened, it’s best I did not replant that last cuke set. It might have been…a little bit too much.
Kitchen garden, July 2009
Those things that are 5 feet tall are of course the tomato plants. Don’t all tomato plants create their own shade?
The things with the salad-plate sized green leaves crawling up the tomato jungle on the left side of the photo are the cucumbers.
It's very, very green out there
So almost exactly 2 months after planting, I’ve got an overgrowing jungle of cucumbers and tomatoes locked together in some sort of power struggle/secret pact.
No ripe tomatoes yet. Which is a pity–a nice tomato would go well in a salad with one of the 31 cucumbers I’ve picked so far.
13 cucumbers in a basket
They’re beautiful, and they taste fabulous. Light and sweet and crunchy.
Want one? I’ve got 18 in my fridge right now.
