Planning, preparing, sowing, organizing, protecting, watering and feeding to promote growth and health, and then waiting and hoping for advancement and progress. This process is repeated every year with varying results. There are always joyful days, with great returns, but there are also long periods of disappointment. We repeat this process year after year, hopefully applying what we have learned the year before, modifying our expectations to curb disappointment, and still remaining hopeful, working hard to accomplish our desired goals, and enjoying the harvest when it comes. This year is slower than hoped, but there are true glimmers of what will come with continued effort -- and a lot of luck. I enjoy the progress to enjoy as many moments as I can.
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| Carrots planted in front of artichoke |
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| Cherry Tomato |
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| Supposed to be another Cherry Tomato but tomatoes are too large already, so who knows. |
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| Zucchini plant spreading its wings |
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| Corn plants with silks showing, looking good! |
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| Flat Leaf Parsley, so tempting to use but so little growing. |
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| Two more tomatoes that were supposed to be Cherry tomatoes but you can see the large fruit. |
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| Sweet peppers, jalapeno pepper and eggplants |
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| Marigolds guarding the leeks in front of the leaf lettuce that has already been harvested. Beyond that is the succession planting of lettuce and carrots |
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| This one shows very little progress. Beet shoots in one row but nothing in the second row. Apparently, I should have planted in winter, so if these survive, I may see fruit at Christmas time. |
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| These are pole beans. I've eaten two beans that have grown to full size but these plants are not growing very quickly. |
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| On the upper photo is a very nicely growing cilantro and next to it shown in the lower picture is the fledgling basil next to a nicely growing romaine. |
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| The one cucumber plant that survived has a tiny fruit growing. |
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| This is the Thai pepper plant that keeps growing back every year, unexpectedly. |
