Perseverance

Fact: I have all but entirely neglected my garden for the past three weeks. We totally lost our zucchini/squash plants, which was a major deterrent, plus things started getting really busy with soccer/school. And in the back of my mind, I kind of figured that even the plants that survived the heat of July would not yield very much produce, not making it worth my time to prioritize gardening.

Well, apparently my plants had another thought in mind. I won't exactly say that production has been outstanding by any counts, but I suppose something is always better than nothing. Like this fairly decent sized bowl of broccoli:

Or this nice robust carrot:

I was even surprised by the number of tomatoes that were starting to come in--none of them are close to being ripe (they're like a month behind where they were last year), but there were still quite a few out there!

Now if I could just figure out how to keep my zucchini plants alive for longer than two months... Darn bugs.