End of summer round up

Well, its that time of year again when I must look over my accomplishments in the garden this year. I did zero work out there. We are calling it the pit of despair. You see when I made the ginormous plan to build this thing I had two kids, I did not go to college and did not have a dog. Four years later and I'm really reevaluating this plan. We have scaled down the planting area quite a bit but the mint is so prolific that I think I will have to newspaper and mulch, everything. That plan is working well and so far we have been able to keep the beds fairly cleaned up. This is good, except that the dog is so destructive my plants are barely hanging on. I did actually harvest a cucumber. That was so cool and it was GOOD. I wanted more. The tomatoes were damaged in June by a freak hailstorm and just never recovered. They grew well enough and flowered but never produced any fruit. Ah well. My dreams of fresh tomatoes will be delayed. Next summer however there will be no school, no babies (dare I hope for no dog). So, I look forward to more time to just relax and dig and hope that in the mean time we can still enjoy what we have.