Garden Harvest Update

I love coming home from vacation and checking out how my garden is doing. The garden seems to grow leaps and bounds when I'm gone! It probably grows no faster than when we're home, but because I'm not out puttering in it 3 times a day I don't notice it.

Anyhow, I was excited to go check out the garden after vacation. I was disappointed. The RABBITS have now taken to eating my beans! (I wondered why they weren't eating my perennials anymore.) Brad actually scared one out of my beans when we went back to pick. I have 16' worth of green beans planted and they were full of blooms when we left. Yeah. Gone. The rabbits chewed many of  them to nubs! We harvested 20 beans. Not 20 ounces, not 20lbs, 20 beans in total. Enough for the 3 bean eaters in the house to enjoy a small handful of them steamed with dinner.  Oh-we also picked 5 pickling cukes, too.

The tomato report? Zero. Zilch. Nada. Empty set. The plants are LOADED with tomatoes but they aren't ripening. I have 2 that have yellow "shoulders" but that's it. Sigh.

Fast forward to today (3 days later) and I wandered out to see what was up. (no boys were willing to walk away from the Wii to help me, little stinkers!) I had onions ready-18 of them!  Some were actually NOT ready, but some critte pulled a few out and left 'em. And--lo and behold--BEANS! I picked another 21 beans today and 1 pickling cuke.

I think I might just grow pole beans next year, to thwart my pests :)