It Has Begun

Our cucumber plants are so prolific right now that we can't keep up, so we gave our neighbor a few on Saturday. Yesterday, Chris’ coworker brought him two tomatoes, and Chris took a cucumber donation to work today. This afternoon, another neighbor gave us some tomatoes and a cucumber from his garden. And just like that, the season of exchanging the overabundance of homegrown vegetables has begun. In the end, I’m not sure any of us will have fewer vegetables than we started out with, but we will have more friends. And isn’t that really the whole purpose of planting vegetables?

My Veggie Garden

My mom's been bragging about her Earth Boxes for a couple of years. She would tell me how fast her garden was growing and how easy it was to take care of, and sometimes she would even tell me how many inches her plants had grown that week. The rate of growth always seemed a little unbelievable (even though I saw the pictures), until I planted a few Earth Boxes of my own:

June 7 - Planting Day

June 23 (16 days after planting)

July 2 (9 days later)

July 9 (7 days later)

I don't know what to give the cucumbers (middle) to climb on next.