How Does Your Garden Grow?

Our gardens of the past have always produced many vegetables!

We usually eat zucchini every day in the summer...sauteed zucchini...stuffed zucchini...zucchini bread. One year pumpkins took over our yard. We had a giganitc pumpkin vine grow the entire distance of our backyard. It grew like 20 "pretty big" pumpkins!

Garden 2005

pumpkin from our vine

Garden 2006

This year we had a problem!!! GROUND SQUIRRELS! We had ground squirrels take over our yard! They dug deep holes and HUGE mounds of dirt resulted! Their worst offense...eating all of our zucchini plants, tomato plants, and sunflowers! We tried humane traps but they were too smart! Aaron became angrier and angrier! I know some of you think squirrels are cute and I do admit it was kinda cute seeing them run around our yard...but Aaron was over it!!!

Garden 2008
At this stage the zucchini plants in the front row and the sunflowers in the back row should be huge already.

zucchini plant eaten by squirrels..................................................sunflowers eaten by squirrels

2008 now

We think the squirrels are gone for now. I'll spare you the details of how we finally got rid of them (poison). Some of our plants are trying to make a comeback but it may be just too late for them. We still have hope for our corn.