I actually have time to write!

So I've been very, very bad on updating this blog. At least I have an excuse: my garden is out of control.

Last year everything seemed so easy (although maybe it's me looking at the past through rose-tinted glasses). I threw out some seed, it sprouted, and 2 months later we were up to our ears in produce. That has not been the case this year. The beets which grew so effortlessly last spring, are this year struggling to fight their way out of a mass of weeds that grows faster than I can yank them. The peas took forever to sprout despite obsessive watering, and are now almost 3 weeks behind where they should be. The bok choy was the worst failure of all; last year we had so much of the stuff that we were sick of it. This year we have none. Only about 20% of it sprouted, and what little did sprout got eaten down to the ground by bugs.

So although the spring crops were doing pretty abysmally, I had a chance to recoup with the summer crop. Which so far I kinda sorta have. Everything I had to direct sow; the corn, zucchini, bush beans, melon, and basil, are all doing very well. Unfortunately all my transplants I started indoors met with a terrible fate known as "ripped out of their pots by a curious 2 year old". So instead of the carefully selected heirloom varieties of tomato I'd planned on growing, instead I have generic hybrids from Lowes.

But regardless, I just keep on keepin on, and tell myself that next season will be better.