Sometimes you just gotta cheat!

The rain has been intense and some aspects of the garden are struggling to grow.  Our carrots in particular are not doing great, despite the fact that several of our neighbors have long fluffy carrot tops that are over 8 inches tall. Who would have thought that I would have ACTUAL  carrot envy, and not just diamond carat envy!! Our tomato plants are also blooming like crazy but not producing any fruit because of all the rain and clouds

So on Father's Day, we headed out to Mandeville gardens and got some more partially grown pea plants, carrot plants and one large green tomato plant with 2 small green tomatoes already on it. We also bought some new lettuce seedlings as ours are all rusting due to all the rain.

The other exciting seedling we found was for Japanese eggplants - yummy - so those came home with us too!

The girls love their garden so much that they wanted to take Chloe's last day of school photo in front of their veggie garden :-)