Last summer, my tomatoes seemed to explode all at once, but this year’s crop is slowly trickling in. While this isn’t ideal for canning homemade pizza sauce, I’m going use it as a chance to enjoy the peculiarities of each breed and take time to document my observations for better planning in the future. Aunt Ruby’s German Green is a tomato which I wrote off last year as being a little too strange for me but was one of my…

Left to right: huge tomato, Silver Queen corn, garlic, cantaloupe, red okra Updates: Joe called me out on “taking it easier” this year… I told him that planting was the easy part and maintenance was where the effort lies. I’ve been taking it easy on watering and weeding, and it’s definitely shown. For the most part, the gardens look good, although weedy, but there are some varieties of plants that haven’t been as great as expected. I think the back and…