Earlier this year I helped Mr. F build a raised veggie garden and we planted sugar snap peas, green beans, Swiss chard, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, potatoes and sweet potatoes. Veggies taste so much better out of your own garden. The peas are yummy (the bunnies think so too), the tomatoes are ripening and the two remaining cucumber plants are doing well (for some reason the bunnies didn't devour these ones) although if you watch closely you can see them trembling in fear. I saw a bunny the other day, munching on grass next to the veggie garden. Awwww cute, right? Wrong. I looked again and spotted a second bunny almost hidden among the pea plants, stuffing his furry little rodent cheeks.
But out of everything that we've carefully planted and tended this year, guess what's growing the best? Yup, something we carelessly tossed into the compost bin. It could be pumpkin, watermelon or cucumber. We're hoping for pumpkin. Whatever it is, it's growing quickly. Five days ago you couldn't see it above the bin but now it's reaching for the sun.
