I literally swore when I was out in my garden yesterday. Loudly.

Every two or three days I poke around my zucchini plants to make sure the leaves are handling things ok. You see, a couple of weeks ago my zucchini plants hit some sort of insane growth spurt and what seemed liked overnight, began to grow outwards and over top of my cucumbers, leeks, lettuce and carrots. Not good. I researched some vertical gardening techniques, bought myself some bamboo stalks, and voila. Problem solved.

But what made me curse out loud was this huge, ginormous green vegetable underneath all those tied up zucchini leaves. My first zucchini! The last time I saw zucchini’s under there, they were maybe 6″ long. This thing is over a foot! I had better start finding some recipes that call for zucchini. Anyone want one? Hey, maybe I’ll do a ‘Free Zucchini Giveaway’.

There also seem to be a lot of little critters in my garden. Some I know are good, like the woodbugs and the worms and the bees, but then there’s some others that I’m not so sure about. As I’ve chosen to purchase organic soil and not use any pesticides or chemicals in my garden to grow vegetables that are as organic as possible, apparently all I can do is pluck these critters out.

What’s on the docket for the garden for the rest of July? This!