Our 2008 Victory Garden

For starters, I gave up on the hanging garden of Hodge.

The tomato plants weren’t getting enough sunlight, so I took them down and carefully placed the containers in the garden in the usual manner – right-side up. But the heat and versilium wilt are taking their toll. I’m afraid we won’t have a bumper crop this year.

Yet, here it is, the day before summer begins when I took these pictures and we’ve already put up 3-1/2 quarts of dill pickles and our watermelons are as big around as Al Gore’s head.

We’ll enjoy the first two ears of sweet corn tomorrow, June 21, as well as a salad featuring our leaf lettuce and a few cherry tomatoes.

The following pix will give you an idea what our garden is doing.

Pictures from the top down: One advantage of growing pickles on a tripod is I don't have to get on my knees (all the time) to pick pickles. These are just hanging there waiting to be harvested.

We love our radishes so this year we are experimenting with radishes in a pot.

We love tarragon but there is no place in town that has it, so we grew our own

Watermelon, what else could I say?

This melon was smaller than Al Gore's head on June 16. But now it is bigger than Al Gore's head. Just hope it isn't as empty.

Two melons almost side by side. Three melon plants out of one Earth Box.

All this pickle activity out of one Earth Box.

The heat and the "wilt" are getting most, but we will get a few tomatoes.

We are experimenting this year. Here is a pic of some of our beets.

As you can see, the "wilt" got to our tomatoes early. But we will harvest a few. These are our cherry tomatoes.

Knee high corn by the 4th? Forget it. We'll be eating ours before the 4th.

Leaf lettuce and dill.