Urban Gardening: Perfecting Some Patience

Now that we've harvested all the tomatoes from the plants that we put down in spring, and the first cucumber vines have withered, we're in a waiting period. The waiting isn't easy. We know the garden's bounty will be delicious. Gardening, however, is a slow process. Nature takes its own course.

So we wait. We water. And we watch.

The cantaloupe and butternut squash are growing. They're just not yet ready to harvest. In fact, they're a bit shy and hiding under the leaves.

We also have several pole bean plants, bush bean plants and cucumbers that we've put down recently (the bush beans and cucumbers are only a week old).

Last, but not least, the sweet potatoes are flowering again. If there's as much activity below ground as above ground, we may have more potatoes than we can manage.