As I blogged about earlier in the spring, I was gangbusters about starting a vegetable garden in our backyard. I blogged about raising the plants from seeds, and we ended up with many, many happy little seedlings that we transplanted into raised beds we had prepared.
Flash forward several weeks: I had a veritable jungle of plants jumbled and twisted together, fighting bravely for sunlight in my tiny raised beds of good intention.
It was inevitable. I would have to wear long sleeves, pants and gloves and just hack away at what was there in an attempt to save some plants and sacrifice others. I learned the hard way that I should have taken thinning the seedlings after I transplanted them a bit more seriously.
There was a silver lining to all this, though: a bumper crop of green tomatoes from plants that had to be removed from the beds. I put them to good use and made fried green tomatoes. If only life’s lessons all had such delicious endings.
What's going on in your garden these days?