I went out for a walk Tuesday night. All by myself. I wandered about in the Logan Square neighborhood. It was a beautiful night. I happened upon a small community garden tucked into a vacant lot katty-corner to a head start school called Christopher House. There was no fence to speak of, just some string on a rope. There were raised beds in groups of three or four with an assortment of veggies in them. Cabbages, lettuces that had bolted, greens, peppers and an unruly mob of tomatoes with melons hiding under them. The tomato boxes were a great mess of steel wire, vegetation and webs of various types of string all endeavoring to hold up the fruit that was bursting forth. As I wandered out I stumbled upon a row of stunted corn followed by spare supplies and compost bins. It was a nice little garden.

Mine on the other hand has seen better days. My super abundant looking squash is dead. I had some beetles first and then a mold swept in and finished it off. I harvested four good sized white patty pan squash and that was it. My amazing corn met with the reaper too. Most of the stalks have been eaten from within and beetles are devouring the silks. It has been a bust on that end of the garden. That doesn't mean that I have been without rewards! The tomatoes are thriving as are the cucs that I planted in early July. I also saw some turnip greens popping up too. All of my potatoes have been harvested for about 36 taters in all and the beets were delicious. So was the melon. Minnesota Midget Melon(that's them in the hammocks up there). Think super sweet cantaloupe only four inches in diameter. Yummy! More next year please.