Back from Ireland

So what happens when you leave your garden for 2.5 weeks? Lots of weeds and grass in the garden. The fence was falling over in a couple of places. I caught a rabbit and a groundhog inside the garden over the last two days. I did some fence repair yesterday- reinforced the posts and added metal stakes to the bottom of the netting. I also added some metal screening to the corner of the garden next to the shed- I suspect the groundhog was sneaking through there.





The peas did not do well. The vegetation in this picture is mostly weeds.



A view of the tomatoes, random peppers, etc., and chickpeas. I already cleaned out the weeds and grass from the tomato bed by the time I took this picture. I lost two tomato plants to Colorado potato beetle larvae, but I had extras on the porch so I replanted after digging out all of the larvae from the soil. They look like bright orange-red lumps of ooze.



The lettuce did pretty well. It tastes sort of bitter though- no surprise since we had near 100-degree temperatures and alternating dry spells and torrents of rain, apparently.