The success we are now having with our square foot garden means we have been bitten by the gardening bug. Everyone in the family is loving checking the growth progress every day, watering the plants, and looking for new vegetables. It is amazing how much better we are doing now that we had a little help. Our first garden is still going, and the cucumbers continue to attack everything in site, so we seem to have a lot of cucumbers in our future. We came to the conclusion that 102 degrees and 14 hours of direct sunlight really is too much for most plants...also part of the downfall of garden number one. So we embarked on building an arbor over all three beds. In true Cammilleri and Texas form, we did so while the thermometer read 107. (Why can't we think of all these projects in the winter when it's a balmy 60 degrees? We and the plants were in great need of this shade. Then we added an Adirondack bench that Tony had built, and our small metal bistro set, and umbrella...and all of the sudden we had a beautiful, backyard garden oasis! The plants are doing even better. It's amzing that the soil is actually still damp at the end of the day instead of bone dry. They are getting plenty of sun, just not 14 hours of direct, extreeme temps. And by nine o'clock at night it's actually cool enough to sit out in our little oasis and enjoy it. We can't wait for fall, so we can spend even more time out there. Pumpkins perhaps??
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