July Gardening... Or Lack Thereof

July has been a difficult month around here.  We started off the month spending a large amount of time outside and ended up holed up in the house.  We had projects and we had fun.  Then I started to suffer from some pretty bad allergies that kept me inside and away from the pollen.  The kids suffered from insect stings, which kept them inside and away from bugs for awhile.

We've made quick dashes outside to gather up the fruits of our gardening, which, frankly, I'm quite surprised we've had much to gather.  Between the drought, the bugs and my lack of doing anything in the gardens this year, it has been a surprise that some of them are bearing fruit.

Onions, tomatoes, and strawberries have been our best crops so far.  The cucumbers and squash were attacked by the bugs and drought.  The peppers are slowly producing, but I expect them to pick up their game next month.  Most everyday we can venture out and gather berries or tomatoes.  It has been fun to harvest those.  Kellyn is the only one who will eat the berries as is, the rest of us need a healthy dose of sugar to make them tolerable.

This weekend brought rain.  Real, hard, cooling rain.  I'm looking forward to seeing what that does for the gardens.