Garden Fresh!

Miles and I have a small garden. And by small, I mean super small...about 2 ft x 6 ft or something like that. Our HOA has a small area they put planting boxes in and have divided it into 12 plots. Last year all the plots were taken and we were on a waiting list to get a plot. Luckily someone ended up moving and we got an offer to take over their garden. They already had tomatoes, peas, and carrots planted, so we just left it as it was. We mostly only ended up with tomatoes and a few peas since they over-planted for the area. But we were super happy with it anyway.

This year, we were more ambitious and wanted to plant peas, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. Miles spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to divide the box into sections big enough for each vegetable. He read up in Square Foot Gardening and did some other research to determine how we could best use our space. Well...our ambitions fell short. Owen was born on April 30th, the same weekend we were hoping to plant. So that detered us for a while. Then we ended up have a crazy late frost with snow falling and sticking to the ground on May 24th! So our garden didn't get planted until June, so we missed out on a month of growth time. And with all the changes, we just didn't have it in us to figure out the logistics of it all anymore so we only planted tomatoes. Not to mention, we did what the previous owners of our plot did and over planted. I know...FAIL.

However, that being said, we have still had some great roma tomatoes to enjoy this summer. Unfortunately our beef steak tomatoes are growing a little slower. We also planted some basil on our front porch and recently enjoyed some fabulous BLTs with fresh tomatoes and basil. YUM! Miles also made some delicious salsa with all our tomatoes. So even though we don't quite have our green thumbs down yet, we have been able to enjoy our produce this summer. Maybe next summer we will do better.

These tiny tomatoes were the first in our garden to ripen. We were wondering where they heck they came from since we didn't plant any cherry or grape tomatoes. However, we think that maybe our Roma's cross-polinated with the cherry tomatoes in the plot next to ours making these little guys. So it is not our fault that one of our roma plants ended up with runts. They are actually great for salads, so we're enjoying them.