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.
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Though, y'know, not at the same time.
Because that would just taste weird.
