Brown thumb......

I have seen so many beautiful harvest pictures out in blog land. I though I would share mine, not to impress you with all of its glory and abundance, but rather for a good laugh.
This would be an impressive harvest if I was a faerie, but sadly I am not. I had good intentions when I planted my garden this spring and early summer and I did my best to make sure it was watered and loved during the driest days of summer and taken care of by others when I was too sick to get out of bed at the begging of this pregnancy.
I am a horrible gardener, it is true. The top picture is our cucumbers, the strangest shaped things I have ever seen resembling weird tiny gourds. And the carrots would have been perfect if my family and I were 6 inches tall, the largest carrot we produced was thumb sized, the rest were the teeniest carrots one could ever imagine...like baby faerie sized.
While the carrots were growing, the tops that stuck out were large and impressive suggesting that a normal sized carrot was indeed growing underneath the earth, but as you grabbed to pull up these chubby orange beauties you would discover that they were only an inch long.....what a tease.
I am pretty good at growing weird tiny fruits and vegetables I guess...check out our strawberries from a few years ago.
It is still fun to try and I am not going to give up yet. I would love to get into canning and putting food by in the future. I have got a long way to go before that happens. It's okay to laugh, I won't be offended. These things take time.

On a Seed

This was the goal of the leaf and the root.
For this did the blossom burn its hour.
This little grain is the ultimate fruit.
This is the awesome vessel of power.

For this is the source of the root and the bud.....
World unto world unto world remolded.
This is the seed,compact of god,
Wherein all mystery is enfolded.

-Georgie Starbuck Galbraith

The snails and slugs are busy eating our garden....as they were last year. The have consumed the bottom half of our peas and already took out an entire 5 foot row of carrots. Any tips on how to get rid of them? They are destroying our little garden before it even has a chance. I planted two new rows of carrots and hopefully they will not get devoured before they are even two inches high.
The strawberries are doing great. I am wondering if they will produce normal looking fruit this year. Check out the strange fruit they made last year.
Bring on the sun!