Garden Update

Thanks to a fairly moist spring, our garden is still coming along.  The onions are just about done:

The squash had to have a little help to defeat its insect predators, but is now doing well.  A few little yellow squashes have already been harvested.

The tomatoes are growing, some better than others.  I have a whole square of Romas just for drying (not pictured).  This is not an ideal climate for tomatoes -- too hot -- but hopefully we will get a few good ones.   Storebought ones just never taste the same.

This is our pepper plot.  I have to say they are not looking too good.  (I do like these colored cages, though :)

The potatoes -- at least the above-ground parts -- are looking pretty healthy at the moment.

I'm not too sure about these beans, though.   We are happy that the corn has come up -- we've never even got this far with corn before.  I would love to get enough corn to freeze some of it.

I can't take any credit for the garden.  This year it has been 99 percent my husband.  And gardening here is not easy.  The soil bakes into a hard clay, and last year was so hot and dry most things shriveled up and died.  Those searing hot days are reaching for us, it seems.  We have already had several days in the nineties.  On one of those hot days, I was entering a store when a white-bearded man in a wheelchair was exiting.  He looked right at me and said "It's gonna be hell in Texas."  It startled me; it was as if I had just received a cryptic word from a prophet.  I knew just what he meant, though.  Summer, with all its harshness, is coming.