How We Spent Our Sunday

Jerry and I are heading into our fifth summer here. I think that's right ... I'd think about it further to be certain, but the thought of all that heat, humidity and, the worst, the vampire bugs (the evil and dreaded mosquitoes) would just depress me. Anyway, one of the worst things about summer here is that, as much as we love to garden, we just have never been able to make anything grow in our yard. Part of it is the heat and the soil, but the biggest part is the lack of sun. The shade trees are great, but they really put the kibosh on anything yummy coming up out of the ground.

So this year we're fighting back. We get sun on one side of our house: the driveway. And, since we don't actually use the driveway, or most of it anyway, we decied to build what you see at left. Eight foot by one and a half foot garden boxes. We'll see if they work. We've got about five different tomato varietals planted in one, and in the other a bunch of different peppers. If these start to grow well, we might do another or two with other kinds of veggies. Anyway, it was a fun and exhausting and good-way-to-keep-your-mind-off-Wilder-starting-daycare-tomorrow way to spend a Sunday. And we've all got the sore muscles and bug bites to show for it.