Progress Report

Many parts of the garden were planted late this year. For late June the results so far are pretty good. The early garden is gone except for a few onions and a few cabbages. Sugar peas were harvested, but health problems caused an absence of gardeners footsteps and allowed the weeds and grass to overwhelm the peas. Everything else can only be seen as a huge success.

The late garden (part of which was later than usual) is doing well too. It has produced lots of tomatoes. The 1st usually comes around the 4th of July. This year the tomatoes started in late May. We did not have enough to can, but too many to eat so last night we cooked the spare tomatoes into a sauce that will be used to make a squash lasagna this weekend. A volunteer has provided a huge volume of patty pan squash. Two yellow squash have been picked and one zucchini, but the plants are loaded. The planted patty-pans are covered with baby squash as well. The spaghetti squash are starting to climb the fence. Two small bags of jalapeños have been picked. The other peppers except for the ghosts have little peppers. The ghosts have blossoms. The cucumbers are ready to be trellised and the okra has blossoms. There are 3 eggplants that are too small to pick.

Almost all of my gardening buddies are reporting the best garden ever this year. Mike Swol has gotten enough cucumbers that he can share with me as ours have not come in yet.



David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/