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A few pics/comments... I had some pretty serious leaf yellowing that looked like it might be early blight, so as per what I read, I did a ton of pruning of the lower sections of my tomato plants, and 100% pruning of yellowed leaves/stems. This is the lower 18ish inches of my cosmonaut volkov...

The productivity of this Sweet Chelsea tomato plant is blowing me away. Also, this morning‘s harvest.

This morning’s harvest, our produce drawer (all the stuff other than avocados is home grown,) the four mason jars of homemade pickles that My wife is making, and the container of squash she’s putting into a casserole today. It’s beginning to dawn on me that perhaps I may have over-planted for a...

This morning‘s harvest included our first cherry tomatoes! This is the first year that I have grown tomatoes from seeds, so I’m extra excited to see these make it all the way to my family’s dinner plates. And from the second pic, seems pretty clear that there’s lots more to come.

This morning’s harvest.

Good news: super sweet 100 cherry tomato plant is still going gabgbusters. First harvest looks to be just a day or two away. Bad news: I hate groundhogs, ‘cause groundhogs love my sunflowers plants.

My goodness. Today’s harvest. Anyone have a good keto squash casserole recipe??? SEVEN squash today.

This morning’s harvest...

More on the kids and the neighbors’ kids: so fun to look out at 8:30 AM on a holiday morning and see this. (Ages 6,8,10)

On a general note, this is insane. I need to take pics of some gardens that neighbors have. Apparently the combo of the early start and the compost-improved soil made a much bigger difference than I could have ever imagined. Pretty much everything is going gangbusters.

On the Monday after Thanksgiving, two of my nearby neighbors put huge pumpkins out on the street for trash pickup. Being that it was at the time of year that I had ton of dead leaves but little “green” matter for composting, I eagerly grabbed them before the city got them, took them to my...

We have outstanding neighbors. Sometimes it feels like we’re a family of 10: four parents raising six kids. There are tons of stories of us helping one another with the kids, but my favorite is that if it weren’t for me going over there to keep their oldest two kids after a frantic call from...

Seeing little girls in pajamas sharing home-grown strawberries over the fence early on a Saturday morning is just about everything I need out of life.

In contrast to yesterday’s squash vine borer discovery, today was an exceptionally encouraging day in the garden: we received rain here for the first time in nearly two weeks, discovered that one of my cherry tomato plants (super sweet 100) has over a dozen little tomatoes, harvested the first...

https://www.almanac.com/pest/squash-vine-borer If the eggs hatch, just one larva can easily destroy an entire squash/zucchini plant. And sometimes they lay eggs on more than one plant.

Found and killed this little jerk today. Didn’t see any eggs, but sprayed the base of all my squash/zucchini plants with neem oil nonetheless. These jackholes destroyed my squash and zucchini crops last year, and I’m determined not to let it happen again.

Biggest strawberry to date from her garden . She was, uh, a bit excited.

First summer vegetable harvest was this morning!

First broccoli harvest was this evening. She was soooooo excited. EDIT: To revisit my comments on the soil, we transplanted the broccoli into her garden and mine literally minutes apart. They were the same size and the seeds had been sown on the same day. No heads have even started to form in...

Also took a pic of the whole veggie garden on that day. The comparisok to now is...wow.