Summer Harvest

Overall, the Square Foot Garden is doing fantastic, especially considering this is my first year. We have a steady supply of Roma tomatoes, delicious meaty Bush Goliath tomatoes, and crisp green peppers. It has been wonderful to just run outside to pick a warm-from-the-sun red tomato to add to a sandwich or sprinkle over a salad.

My favorite tomato meal has been combining a vine-ripened tomato with fragrant garden-fresh basil, mozzarella and drizzling with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Delicious... and so healthy too!

Despite the fact that I am not a cucumber lover, I did add one plant to the garden. We have picked two huge cukes so far and I've used them for homemade tzatziki sauce to serve over burgers. Yum!! Christopher is my official cucumber helper and he daily runs out to a garden with a ruler to see how large the cukes have grown.

The beans are about done so next year I need to either plant the ever-producing pole variety or do several plantings of the bush green beans.

I chopped some of the green peppers and dried them in the dehydrator for use later in the year. I have two pepper plants but next year I think I'll add more.

About my only total failure was zucchini. I had two plants which both (I think) fell prey to the dreaded squash beetle. I must be the only person on earth who cannot grow zucchini. Too bad ... it's one of my favorite veggies!