More tomorrow my foot!

The last post here ended with the remark "more tomorrow". And then I laid off for a year. Hard to tell whether keeping a blog makes any sense for me. I like my hand written notebooks with their coffee stained pages, dirt, plant pressings and other items that make them real. Blogging is just not all that exciting to me.

2010 was not exactly a banner garden year. One thing and another kept me from getting out there and getting the work done and I ended up with only a bed of potatoes, another of bush beans, and the greenhouse beds of lettuce, peas, carrots, squash and zucchini outside and cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers, along with a small bed of late lettuce and basil inside.

Tomatoes and peppers are bearing nicely. The cukes are nearly finished because I haven't had time to get out and pick them. Cukes stop bearing if the fruit is allowed to fully ripen.

The demands of the beginning and the end of the school year really play havoc with the garden schedule. Once school is out, it is too late for lots of the work, and then much of the garden matures after the school year starts again. Beans need to be picked now, but there just isn't time.