Harvest Blessings..

I brought in 5 tomatoes and 1 cucumber from my garden this week. This would be really good, except that I suspect that the cucumber was my last from my one cucumber plant… it was the third cucumber. The tomatoes also are just finally getting ripe, and I doubt there will be many more before the first frost. Gardening is not my forte. Some of it seems to be bad luck – for some reason, few of the seeds I ever plant sprout. But most of it is poor method. I water erratically, seldom or never fertilize, and know next to nothing about garden husbandry issues\’c3\’82\’c2\~like how to deal with pests, ants, etc. But every year I think, “next year I’ll do better…” And every year there’s some improvement, so maybe eventually I’ll actually have cut flowers to bring inside and decorate the house, a king’s portion of tomatoes, lots of cucumbers, and enough basil to make at least 1 batch of pesto!! It might take 10 years though, at the rate I’m going.\par
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Nope, gardening is no my strong suit. And next spring might not be the best time to try major cultivating experiments. After all, I’ll be 8 months pregnant by the middle of April! And after our next baby is born somewhere around May 13, I doubt there’ll be much fertilizing and watering going on. But I’ll be involved in a different type of nurturing, then. One that I’m hopefully much better at!