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August Garden Update

August 21, 2012 By Emily McClements
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Our family had a great vacation last week at our cottage in Northern Michigan. It’s one of my favorite places in the world, it’s so peaceful and relaxing. Now we’re trying to get back into the swing of things as my daughter starts school tomorrow and fall is just around the corner!

august garden update

So, our garden this year has taken on a life of it’s own! Our original planting on Mother’s Day only yielded us one zucchini plant. A few peas came up, but I didn’t keep them watered consistently, so they just died off. It was really weird, but none of our other seeds grew at all.

But, our one zucchini plant has totally taken over! It is gigantic and produces more zucchini than we know what to do with!

gigantic zucchini plant

Because Blair was born at the beginning of June, I just didn’t really worry too much more about the garden. We didn’t get anything else planted they way we had planned to. But I did notice that two plants had popped up in one of our beds that didn’t look like weeds, but looked like some kind of melon or squash. So I left them to see what would happen.

melon and watermelon vines

On the right-hand side are the melon and watermelon vines

It turns out that one of them was cantaloupe and the other was watermelon, which is so funny because those were two of the the other things I was considering planting! We figure that they must have grown from seeds in our compost. So crazy! We’ve harvested one cantaloupe that was really good, and one watermelon that was barely even pink on the inside – I guess we picked it a little too early.

melon on the vine

Can you see the two melon? We have about 7 of them growing, I think!

watermelon on the vine

Here are two watermelon. We have about five of these guys growing!

So, now our garden consists of one gigantic zucchini plant, and two overgrown melon plants – a cantaloupe and a watermelon. We returned home from vacation to find 10 enormous zucchini, and a few smaller ones that we can actually use and eat, and still more growing.

huge zucchini

They were so big he could barely hold them!

So that’s our garden this year. Nothing too exciting, unless you count the volunteer cantaloupe and watermelon plants. We’ll just have to wait and try again next year!

How is your garden growing this year?

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6 CommentsFiled Under: Green Living Tagged With: gardening, green living, home

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  1. Heather says

    August 22, 2012 at 9:16 am

    Those giant zukes will work wonderfully for zucchini bread and muffins! Just grate it and freeze in 2c increments. It will keep you in zucchini bread for the whole winter 🙂 Or throw it in soup or stir fries.

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  2. Jane says

    August 22, 2012 at 1:41 pm

    Oh my gosh, that is great! The melons are so pretty!! I wish I could get some to grow here! Those zucchini are huge too!

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  3. labbie1 says

    August 22, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    Wow! A blessing that only ONE zucchini made it! LOL I have a wonderful double chocolate chocolate chip zucchini cake that is oh so good! I can’t find any zucchini! My little garden plants didn’t do well, but 6 weeks or more of triple digits with no rain and many more weeks of 90+ degree weather with no rain will do that. Maybe next year…

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  4. Audrey says

    August 23, 2012 at 8:10 am

    What a huge kind of vegetables…I am inspired also to make my own gardening..Thank a lot for sharing inspiring post..

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