I finally managed to get some pictures of current growth.

I don’t think I’m going to have *quite* the harvest that I wanted when I set out this Spring, mainly because it took me forever to get fill dirt for my beds, so I couldn’t maintain my seedlings that I had planned. Once I fell behind on that part, it was pretty much game over. Here it is, early August, and I still have some baby seedlings that I haven’t put in beds or pots.

Just looking at my garden fills me with anxiety- I become overwhelmed thinking about what I’m going to do with the harvest, how to continue to care for all these plants, what isn’t yielding fruit and why, whether or not I’ll be able to overwinter my pepper plants (tried and failed last year, for various reasons), and even thinking ahead to how to plan and plant differently for next year. This is just the way my brain works.

I am excited for the things that are growing- don’t get me wrong…

But I wanted more. More yield. More variety. More growth. Maintaining even a small plot like this is hard for me, working 8-5 (I’m gone from 7am until about 5:45pm, and my little one’s bedtime is 6:30-7) and trying to still have time with the kids when I get home. That is a fatal flaw of this self-diagnosed adult ADD- I start too much, and then I can’t do enough to keep up with it all.

It also seems to me that my garden is growing/yielding behind the schedule of everyone else’s right now. A lady I work with has been bringing in grocery bags full of beans and squash to share for weeks- I just picked my first handful of beans yesterday. I picked my first zucchini and squash and brought them in to share about 2 weeks ago(thinking I would have an abundance), and haven’t had another one of pickable size since. What gives, garden?

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Apologies- it appears that I forgot I had started a garden post and I abandoned this for the last ten days. Oops. Though I would consider this post un-finished, I’m just going to put it up now because I don’t want to drag it out any longer (my pumpkin, shown fully green above, is now almost 1/3 orange. That’s what happens when I get distracted and walk away from things).

I will post again soon.

Blessings,