Square Foot Garden Update - Mad Dogs, Englishmen and EcoMeg

It's 103 degrees F here in north Texas and it is humid.  Five minutes standing still outside and I'm sweating through my clothes.  Of course, that did not stop me from transferring the finished contents of my composter into my veggie patch.  My garden needed a pick me up.

I was delighted to find that my compost is lovely, dark and sweet-smelling, just as I had hoped.  After picking out some items that needed to cook some more, such as these onions that had actually grown rather than broken down,

I churned it up with my shovel, wet it down into a sort of a slurry and spread it over my veggie garden, tucking it in close to the stalks of all of my plants.  I could almost hear them sigh with appreciation.

Next, I inspected my plants, plucking off dead leaves and keeping an eye out for insects.  Things looked good.  I looked up and saw this:

My first cucumber!  A sight for sore eyes.

I finished my few moments in the heat by deliberately zipping this bee into my enclosure.  I need some pollination and don't feel like getting out my paint brush and playing bee myself.

Stay cool!