Tag: zucchini

Fruition

And just like that, all the digging, weeding and watering bears fruit.

Zucchini

Zucchini is a favorite of mine to grow because it is so blasted easy!  The first year I grew them, I crowded them with tomatoes, to which I gave higher priority.  Not only that, but my kitchen compost carried with it an extremely fast growing mystery squash, whose color and shape matched nothing I saw in the grocery stores, until it sat on my counter for a few months (at which point it turned yellow) and I cut into its stringy flesh to discover one of my favories—spaghetti squash!

Did any of this daunt my zucchini’s??  Definitely not. They gave me an abundance of fruit, large and small.  And I vowed thereafter to cut them as babies, because there are always so many, and the babies are delicious.

Cucumber

This year Jared took a gardening class at a greenhouse next door to his school, and brought me…

Rain Rain Go Away

It is the grayest sort of day today, and I suppose I needed a reminder of sunny, vital fecund summer.  Okay, so this past summer was rather rainy and drab as well, but clearly there was enough there to grow things.  A lot of things.

It’s been such a period of change—house renovation, lay-offs, more house renovation, father with terminal cancer, still more house renovation—that sometimes I can’t tell if history is blurry because so much is happening, or because I’m drinking too much.

But I can say with authority this summer we had a GARDEN!  And in that garden, we watched life, and sturdy persistent seedlings, and an unexpected bumblebee hive. And it was affirming.