We bought the house in Anneslie Historic District in February 2021. We moved in, in May 2021, but were living with Grime for a minute in WV and in an one-bedroom AirBnB apartment in Charles Village (which was a #mistake) while the floors were refinished, the walls' plaster reskimmed to get rid of 90 years of paint on top of stucco (easier than scraping), the gutters repaired, the house power washed, and the walls painted. We finally started unpacking in May, and I promptly began growing vegetable seedlings because our yard grew about five times in size from what we had on Calvert street and Julie had put in a great vegetable planter with 100% full sun.
I didn't think through the timing of our summer travel plans and the endeavor to be a gardener. We spent most of June and half of July with Grime in Timberlost and then came back to Baltimore for two weeks in July for Stella's Sleeping Beauty Camp with the Baltimore Ballet Company before heading back out on the road to Fenwick for August.
What this meant, logistically, is that I was not at home to tend to these vegetables once I got them in the ground. What didn't get scavenged by squirrels and rabbits, became completely overgrown and almost inedible. The tomatoes were in the latter category. Here are some of the vegetables of my (lack of) labor:
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