I’ve posted pictures of the annual household garden in the Pictures section. For those of you too lazy to click on multiple links:

http://www.stickman.org/Pictures/Pictures-2008/garden2008/

So far, we’ve picked about a half-dozen tomatoes (early blooming Romas and large Grape tomatoes). 4 zucchini (including the one pictured - I picked it after the picture) and half a dozen cucumbers. We also picked some green peppers and one of the chiles this evening (which we’ve come to realize can’t be Serrano Chiles because they’re not the right color).

This garden doesn’t vary much from last year except it’s twice the size and we’ve added a bigger assortment of herbs. Our one disappointment this year is that both Sweet Basil plants we’ve planted are doing poorly - but in different ways. One is small, but the leaves are deep green and very flavorful (but way too small). The other is pretty big, but the leaves are very light green and taste like, well...leaves....

Will probably update this as the summer goes along.

This year’s garden is courtesy of my second cousin and her family. They bought me a huge gift card to Lowe’s for my birthday, and I spent a bunch of it on garden stuff! Thank you all!

Tags: Gardening