We’ve had a very cool summer here in Northern California. For the most part, it’s been in the 60s and (occasionally) 70s during the day, with the temperatures dropping down to the 50s at night. This is highly unusual. David absolutely hates it.

While it means we’ve rarely been overheated the last few months, we have had to bundle up every morning cause I refuse to turn on the heat (hello, it’s August!) and our garden is lush green, green, green…

with lots of stems, leaves, and flowers, but no harvest to speak of!

We’ve had 6 cherry tomatoes, all of which Miss Leyba has eaten, and ZERO of the other two types of tomatoes we planted. (They’re there, they’re maybe growing, but they’re not ripening.)

One strawberry consumed by, you guessed it, Miss Leyba.

One zucchini with more on the way.

And lots of cilantro (though it’s going to seed as I type this).

Usually we’d start planting our fall crop now, but instead we have no choice but to wait it out and hope for warmer weather to increase our crop. I tell you, our plants are teasing us right now!

So instead of ripping out our summer garden to plant those fall veggies, we decided to (once again) turn some of our lawn into a veggie bed.

More on that tomorrow…