Even though summer is coming to an end and the nights are growing colder, our garden continues to produce. Not much, mind you.  A couple of tomatoes, a small sweet green pepper, a few hot peppers.  My daughter tells me there is a yellow squash that is starting to grow.  I only hope that it grows large enough to pick before the night time frost comes and kills it.

Our hot pepper crop was not exactly a winner, but the kids have been really excited about it. They have come up with all sorts of recipes for us to make using the hot peppers. I have had to gently remind them that our hot pepper supply is rather small.

But still they are excited. If anyone is wondering whether or not they should plant a garden next Spring I have to say that it has been a great experience for the kids. They have worked at taking care of the garden, watering the plants, picking the vegetables that have grown.  They are also so much more excited to eat vegetables that they have grown themselves.

One tiny word of advice, if you are planting in the Spring before all of the leaves have bloomed on the trees, really consider the amount of shade that the area you want to put your garden in will get. Our tree grew enough over the past year that the garden was no longer in full sunlight this summer. This probably contributed to the poor growth of many of the vegetables.