"There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling."

- quote by Mirabel Osler

This year, I'm growing:

• six Wisconsin 55 tomato plants
• five cherry tomato plants (goddamn rabbits ate one plant and the marker, so I don't know the exact type)
• six California Wonder bell pepper plants
• seven dark green zucchini squash plants
• 15 Bush Blue Lake 274 green bean plants
• a smattering of Danvers half long carrots and White Lisbon bunching onions
• an abundance of Grand Rapids leaf lettuce
• copious amounts of potted peppermint, lavender, dill, thyme, rosemary, basil, chives, and chamomile

I'd like to document how much produce I harvest this summer.  I think I'm going to exclude the lettuce and herbs from the count though; it would be more difficult to measure the amount harvested, and I've already used quite a bit of the lettuce and each of the herbs.

I planted everything in a roughly 8x10 foot plot back in mid-May, and today was the first "real" (i.e., more than lettuce or herbs) harvest.  I picked nine green beans and one zucchini.  All of the plants are covered with lots of blossoms and tiny veggies.  I think the next few months will be very fruitful.  Pun fully intended in a very literal way.