Our garden LOOKS impressive at this point. Our neighbors comment about how jealous they are that our garden is doing so well. By this they mean that they see lots of green leaves. I keep telling them I have no idea what I’m doing, and that it really isn’t doing THAT well…

You see, we’re battling blossom-end rot in the squashes, cucumbers, and zucchinis. Evidently we don’t have enough calcium in our soil. I googled around and came across something that sounded pretty good… buying calcium supplements, grinding them up and dissolving them, and watering them in… so I’m trying that now.

The green beans look fine, but we haven’t been harvesting them the way we should. It’s just not that motivating to go out there and scour the plants to find the 5 beans that might be ready to pick, then not have enough for even a decent snack. I need to get on that. Next year I think we won’t plant beans (unless hubs really wants them).

So… very few beans, no cucumbers yet, no peas. We have some green roma tomatoes trying their best to ripen, no zucchinis, no peppers, no honeydew. We have two watermelons that have been steadily growing, so that’s exciting, and our herbs are all doing very well.

And this one squash:

It wasn’t very big but it seemed ready to pick and eat, so…

I cut into its beautiful creamy flesh…

And cooked it up in some olive oil, salt, and pepper. We shared it while I cooked our REAL dinner. And do you know what? It tasted every bit as good as a home-grown sun-ripened squash should.