Garden Update

I'm exhausted. Yesterday we worked in the garden for four hours in temperatures upwards of 86 degrees. We kicked ass, watering the plants with 38 gallons of water we brought from home. I keep a rain barrel (water butt) outside the back door and have been filling up plastic gallon jugs everytime I collect them from the friend who buys them (full of milk). So after filling them and saving the excess water from the barrel, we took all the water over to the kitchen garden yesterday. And then carted a wheel barrow full of water jugs up and down to the garden two or three times. While I did this, Clyde set about installing the wooden stake-trellises we had made at home beforehand (here's some we made earlier). We banged the stakes into the earth and then tied the tomato and pepper plants to them. The plants we had staked previously had fallen over from the weight of the leaves.

It looks as though we will have a good crop of both peppers and tomatoes, but will have to wait a little while. Neither group has turned red yet. Lots of green fruit. Speaking of which, I harvested our first three cucumbers on Friday night.