2008 Garden Diary - XO #3: Harvesting a few veggies

Boy it seems that everyone has had trouble this year with their veggie gardens … but boy, what you did have grow looks delicious!!!!! And I would love to see how the prep work for your larger garden is going … :-)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

that’s the thing with farming .. some years are great and others.. not so good

but.. you definitely got some nice stuff there!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

all things considered, my veggie garden was and still is ….............another perfect year.

I have enough beans frozen to feed a small village for a year. They are now so tall the only character missing is “Jack”

My tomatoes are tall and so heavy with fruit/berries that there is no way a family of five could eat them all…....

Giant pumkins are big enough that an olympian wieght lifter might pause for quiet reflection as in….........there aint no way I’m going to lift that

Buttercup squash, 2 plants…........fill what looks like an acre

The beets resemble brusied soccer balls, even the batch I planted in August are big enough to eat.

Right now the peas are so thick that one wonders if you picked them clean every day they might never stop coming.

I have found that the constant rain, interupted by shorter periods of hot as hades sunshine….......is almost perfect for my veggie garden.

-- Central northish Ontario

X….Sorry to hear your veggie garden wasn’t so good this year.At least it wasn’t a total disaster.
Greenthumb….Nice to hear someone had success this year with their veggie gardens.
My tomatoes had great success this year.I am picking about 8 or 9 every day now.I only grew 4 plants.
The Amish Paste Tomatoes grew beautifully.They got quite large and the taste was sooooo goooood.Thank you to whomever sent me the seeds in the trade.I gave some of the plants to some friends and they loved them too.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more