Day 30 - Tomato Cages are "Things"

The good news is that the garden is overall doing pretty well, and the tomatoes are going strong (finally). The bad news is, we were going to get new tomato cages this year, as all the wire varieties we've tried have only worked while the tomato plant could support itself, which makes them totally useless.

No problem--I married MacGyver and MacGyver has a woodshop. Andy set out to build a set of condos for the tomatoes.

Problem: we don't have enough wood to build frames.

But, I married a man who can fix sprinklers with hula hoop bits. A little while later:

We have wooden frames holding UP the wire cages. It isn't exactly pretty, but it fixes the problem. Who knew the spending ban would be such a stimulus for creativity?

Most of the garden is doing well. We are about to have a green bell pepper:And soon we'll have a yellow bell pepper

which I think looks suspiciously like a green bell pepper, but we're willing to pretend. I should have kept the tag--maybe it said "yellowish pepper."

Andy is forbidden from fertilizing the radishes any moreas they are masquerading as turnips. Weirdly, they still taste great and don't have that woody texture big radishes so often get. Still, we're aiming for normal vegetables, not mutant freaks.

The peas are doing great

No actual peas or anything, but the plants look fabulous.

The parsley we planted 2 years ago has returned & brought friends.
Did anyone know that it actually becomes a large bush when properly motivated?

And the butternut squash:
Nope, I don't see anything there either. I have reseeded it 3 times. I always thought the difficult part of squash was getting rid of it, not growing it. That must just be zucchini.

60 days to go!!!