Sephora will have to wait because we have vegetables!

I don't think I've mentioned it before, but we have a garden. Mostly vegetables, with a couple of dahlias thrown in by mistake. Since we're renting we have no grass in the backyard. Grass requires water, expensive, scarce water, and we're not going to pay to water grass that belongs to someone else. So in this country when you don't water grass there is none, not a couple of sickly patches, zero, because it doesn't rain at all in the summer, not a drop.

This situation is perfect for E because he has been dying to grow lots of veggies ever since we made the move over the ocean. He has no grass to rip up, nothing better to do with the yard (there would be lots of spiky sharp weeds if he didn't do anything, rendering the yard completely useless), and only has to share the area with the puppy who hangs out there while we're at work.

So, a fence was built to delineate between puppy territory and veggie territory and the rest is history. We had a couple of slow growing veggies in the winter, essentially leek and lettuce, and then the minute spring hit all hell broke loose. To say our backyard gets a lot of sun is an understatement, so all that energy makes the plants grow at a scary pace. Most of the zucchini and cucumbers get picked once they are too big because they grow so damn quickly. But besides that drawback, the vegetables are doing swimmingly.

We currently have zucchini, cucumbers, corn, hot peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, watermelon, and cantalope. The zucchini and cucumbers are coming faster then we can eat them, we've gotten a hot pepper, the eggplant should be ready in a week or so, and the corn is about ready to be picked. The tomatoes scare me a little bit. Right now we have none, but there are literally hundreds, lurking, green, just waiting to ripen all at once and drown us in tomatoes. They are taking their time, but I already am trying to figure out ways to not waste all those bad boys.

Here's a little tour for you.


It began like this.



Now the watermelons are about five times that size and the cucumbers continue to multiply. Here are some zukes and tomatoes, that's how they look now.



The bounty.



The Security. Trust me when I say no one is going to get near the vegetables, unless they happen to have a can of tuna on them.