Midsummer Challenges

August has bought blogging challenges AND gardening challenges. The blogging challenge is that the new system is now the default program. We have until the end of the month to stop reverting to the workable legacy program, so I'll just keep using it until Blogger prevents me from doing so.

The gardening challenges are way easier to deal with!

cute baby bunny in the garden

It's hot and dry, and the garden has to be watered every day to keep things alive and growing. I have a very small garden this year with tomatoes, zucchini, cucumber, basil, peppers, carrots, beans, and a bit of spinach and lettuce in a raised bed. It's a constant battle for the produce with the resident bunny family. Mostly they win, but sometimes we get some of the veggies.

black swallowtail butterflies-to-be

I had to sacrifice my favourite parsley plant to a family of black swallowtail caterpillars. These creatures become beautiful butterflies and they are great pollinators, so I decided to let them live here.

The zucchini is out of control! The rabbits usually only bite into a couple of them at the beginning of zucchini season. Once they realize that they really don't like zucchini, they leave the rest for the humans.


The tomatoes are late appearing this year. Maybe they are worried about getting COVID too? Should I make them tiny little masks so they feel safer being so close to their friends? LOL Covid humour :)

Gardeners' humour!

Midsummer is when I get weary of the watering and weeding. It's a predictable process that unfolds over the season... 
I can't wait to plant seeds in May, really enjoy checking on all the baby plants in June, watch and water faithfully in July, and by August I am so over all of it!