Carefully crafted gardens are starting to close...

[Siwsan]

2. Very nice!!

I didn't have a very good crop of anything, this year. Some of the San Marzano and Marinara tomatoes started rotting from the bottom, up and the peppers just weren't very abundant. The zucchini were ok but the yellow squash wasn't. I have some Early Girl tomatoes but not nearly as many as in past years. Normally I have plenty to make lots of stewed tomatoes and home made Marinara sauce and freeze them. Not this year.

Yesterday I did pick some San Marzano tomatoes and sweet peppers, and a zucchini. Along with my garlic and an egg plant from my brother's garden I was able to make a very tasty Ratatouille.

I've discovered that deer have eaten most of the pears and are starting on the apples. The pear tree is on one side of the fenced in veg garden and the apple tree is on the other. The fence wouldn't stop deer so they are also wandering in the veg garden to get from one fruit to the other. That might have something to do with the dismal crop, this year. Lots of the cherry tomatoes are scattered across the ground.