Growing, Growing, Gone.

I love my vegetable garden. It's certainly a yearly learning process. After 4 years I have learned the following:

Stink bugs stink.

Watering does make a difference.

Do not put metal supports around zucchini.

I cannot grow cucumbers.

And chipmunks are a pox upon me.

But this year has been pretty good. We had wonderful sugar snap peas and lots of peppers. We would have enjoyed a bountiful tomato crop had the aforementioned rodent not single paw-edly removed my heirloom fruits one by one. 

Every year I plant sunflower seeds. And every year the seeds are removed by probably the same tomato-mauling chippy. 

But this year he must have been distracted by the bumper tomato crop and missed a few. Three grew and one was enormous! 

 

The best part? One morning this beautiful butterfly came to visit. 

The butterfly flew away for a moment when a slightly larger visitor took center stage.

 Things definitely grew in the garden. As well as elsewhere. 

It's the first day of school today... growing up!

New Beginnings

I planted my vegetable garden yesterday. 

Last year it served mostly as salad for a persistent deer, a fence-climbing rabbit, and an army of moles. 

But I put seeds and baby plants into the ground again. At least creating the opportunity for growth and harvest. 

Placing a large trellis over a tiny tomato plant gives me a sense of optimism.

I love the potential in a new beginning.