I am officially calling the garden a failure and have given up for this year. The Rabbits ate the tops off most of the green peppers I planted at the end of July. They eventually eat all of the blossoms and small peppers off the new plants.

Cucumbers are long gone and most of the heirlooms are dead. The garden is an overgrown weed patch. With all of my other activities in August, I didn’t have the time eo salvage or restore it. We had no rain in August, so there might not have been much that could be done. The animals ate all of the Roma tomatoes and plants.

I am going completely to raised beds next year, although I don’t have a concrete plan yet.

So, in short, the garden declined in August because of the lack of consistent rain and the time I spent trying to clean up the porch and finish the cooking deck.  Cousins week and the trip to St. Louis kept me away from the garden for two weeks and sealed its fate. I got a few things done in August’s last couple of weeks but gave up on the garden.