Return Of The Garden

So, my garden?

Not looking so healthy.

That sad, shriveled thing is a zucchini.

A zucchini!

There was a time I was drowning in zucchini!

My tomato plants were also getting sparse;

many had hardly a leaf on the stems.

But I wasn't going to give up, dang it!

I live in Southern California,

 where summer weather stretches far past the supposed start of fall.

I have comfortably accompanied the kids trick-or-treating in shorts, y'all!

So I started fertilizing at all more often,

but then I realized something:

my water nozzle was totally weak-sauce!

I know from experience that grit and debris gradually clogs up a sprayer,

so while I had been watering for the same amount of time,

less actual watering had been going on.

So I bought a lusty, new sprayer...

... and things starting improving!

Zucchinis have once more been swelling,

and shoots have been popping up along my tomato stems.

Yay!

I should get a chocolate zucchini cake or two

 and tomato salad out of my garden yet.

 Though, y'know, not at the same time.

Because that would just taste weird.