My apologies for skipping out on the KinderGardens postings this past month! I honestly, really, totally thought that it was over with! *BLUSH* Imagine my horror surprise when I found out I’ve been slacking and missing out?!  As you can see, our garden is VERY thick and lush.

Unfortunately, here in Eastern Washington it could go from all of this potential, to brown and dead in the span of one or two cold nights.  We’re praying that the frost stays away for at least another month!

The barrels aren’t doing so great. The peas died, and so did the garlic. The garlic is very small, which could be from not getting enough water. Same story with the peas. Hey, I tried! I told you a long time ago that I usually lose interest in the garden once it gets hot out, and that is what happened although I REALLY worked on keeping us out there. Really.

We didn’t do so well with garlic, but we have pumpkins!  Only 3 good sized ones, but a couple smaller ones too. The boys are SO excited about this! We also have canteloupes! Another thing to get excited about! Honestly I’m amazed we have anything out there, but I guess E got the sprinklers set up just right for them.

The corn is only about four feet tall, but it has ears on it… about 8” from the ground! Weird, but we have never been able to grow tall corn here. It’s always 5’ or under, and usually it turns out really tasty too!  The boys did jump the gun last week and brought me FOUR ears of underdeveloped corn. I explained to them that it has to finish growing first, but D2 just wanted to show it to me so bad he brought it in the house. And he had to throw it away. Sad!

We also have LOTS of green tomatoes. Lots. Lots of potential for rotten green tomatoes if we get frost. This is the biggest heartbreak EVER when it comes to where we live. We used to think we just have bad luck with them, but found out that lots of people deal with the same thing here.   We have beefsteak tom’s this year, and I’m really afraid for them. They ripen SO late that it’s possible we won’t get a single one we can actually eat. So far we’ve only had 4 Romas and a couple hand fulls of cherry tomatoes come ripe enough to pick.

And of course, it wouldn’t be my house without the Wonder Twins tearing things apart. This time it was an ear of unripe corn. I’m sure it was one that the boys picked last week. They happily tore it to pieces and chased each other all over the yard for the corn on the cob itself.

So how is your garden growing?  Be sure to link up at The Inadvertent Farmer!