Garden: Birth to Death

When one begins documenting the garden's progress, excited to see everything growing prolifically, one must also document the corn and tomatoes pining away in standing water. I took the last batch of pictures when I went to the lower garden for the first time in 2 weeks to see if the lake had dried up yet. It hadn't, and now I'm done taking pictures because it's too sad a pastime.


ONE. SO EXCITED. LOOK AT THESE GARDENS!

TWO. WAHOO! EVERYTHING'S GROWING!

THREE. WOWSERS! GO, GARDEN, GO!

FOUR. Sun and rain in perfect balance!

Oops. Guess I forgot to take more than the beginning picture of the lower garden until now.  There wasn't much to see, anyway.

FIVE. Slightly less exhilarating. Beans are dead. Brussels are dying. Second plantings of cilantro, beets, and kale rotted along with the first. Tomatoes and corn valiantly trying to swim.

The arial view is lovely, though.

LAST SNAPSHOTS. Herb bed looks a little weedy, huh...

Asparagus jungle.

Pumpkins and sunflowers are both doing splendidly.  Before the rain stayed, cucumbers, zucchini, peas, and lettuce produced well, too.

Everything in between is rotting from the rain.

Hurrah for basil!

Three cheers for the sunflowers!

Two week update. Those swimming tomatoes and two rows of corn have stopped their efforts and have succumbed to drowning.  Brussels are almost all dead. Onions and summer squashes are dying. Potatoes rotted in the ground for the first time ever in my 16 years of gardening.  But pumpkins-- oh, pumpkins!  I am pinning my hopes on the pumpkins. And there's always next year...

(What's 120 tomato plants, anyway. Pfft. I don't even care anymore.)