It's getting toward mid-August and I need my tomatoes. My garden has produced three cherry-sized tomatoes so far this year.

We have eaten other tomatoes. We bought some at the local farm stand. And some of the seedlings Nancy started produced tomatoes that son Zac and his wife, Marah, brought up from Medford, Mass.

But the tomatoes in our garden are remaining green. I don't know if it is foggy Cape Elizabeth weather, a generally cool summer or something else.

Another oddity of the garden. We did not start cucumber seedlings this spring, opting to directly seed them in the garden. Well, using year-old seed, nothing sprouted.

Until last week. I saw two tiny cucumber plants. I have no idea what took them so long to sprout, but I doubt we get any cucumbers.

Off to the farm stand.

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