Out of Control

The plants are getting huge! All three tomato plants have little green tomatoes on them and are about 3 and half feet tall. The pepper plants are a little smaller but getting little peppers as well and the squash have these huge lovely green leaves.

That said, I keep getting little squash fruit with beautiful yellow blossoms then right after they start to fatten up some thing is attacking them. I have been killing ant mounds all around the garden for the last week by dumping boiling water on them (organic pest control) but today I found ants in one of the squash blossoms and no mound around for me to wreak havoc on. I'm really not sure what to do in the way of better pest control. I suppose its time for more research. My other failure this week was with the lettuce. I managed to pick and eat two heads of lettuce and give away a third but the other three just kept growing and I think will be too tough to eat (not mention they are three feet tall and about to blossom themselves). Moral of the story here-- garden is growing fabulously but maybe a little too well, hope friends will welcome free tomatoes, peppers and squash (if it stops rotting off the vine).

In addition to the vegetable garden coming right along, the front garden is full of little plants that I am very hopeful will be flowers. The heat has already come to central Texas, so I don't know how well they will fare but my fingers are crossed.

And finally, because I realized there was not a single picture of her on here. I decided to take one of Lola in the freshly mowed lawn. I am so proud of her- loving, loyal and beautiful. What more could a dog-mom ask for?