Victory Garden

The photo above shows our garden at this time last year. Below is our garden this year:

This year the spring was long, cold, and rainy and we got a very late start. Things are shaping up, though. I always wanted to have a fall garden because you are supposed to escape most of the trouble with bugs, but what I thought would happen was that I would harvest the spring stuff and then plant another crop for fall. This year we are only getting the fall part, but that's OK. We aren't growing a wide variety of stuff, just the old regulars: beets, carrots, radishes, onions, chard, beans, cucumbers, squashes (winter and summer), and basil. I did buy a few tomato plants to try, but I usually don't have much luck with those because of some disease in the soil, but hope springs eternal in the garden.

In knitting news, I am still working on the aqua sweater in fits and starts, and just need to finish the lace edging on the sleeves before I hang it on the machine and do the stockinette part.