This past Saturday Eric decided to mow. I decided I wanted to be outside and not inside. I declared it a great day to be done with the garden. I went out to dig up the carrots (extra sweet and yummy), get rid of all the tomato plants after first plucking the few red and ripened tomatoes. Plenty of green ones went in the yard waste bag. Trimmed down and got rid of most other lingering plants bearing no more produce. I was ready to yank out the measly pumpkin plant with a thin and sad vine. BUT, hold on, at the end, we discovered one lone pumpkin. Small and green, but still there. I doubt that in 2 weeks it will be orange. But one can only wait and see. At least there is one last hurrah with the garden! That was a fun moment and the kids were more than excited. And we had enough carrots and herbs to share with old neighbors who happened to be driving by and neighbors we do not see very often. Boy, do we miss them! One used to live next door and was quite grandmotherly to our children who enjoyed watching them grow up in our "back yard" while she looked out her kitchen window.
Our stash made a delicious beef stew (carrots, parsley, oregano, chives). I do have plans for next year's garden! Less tomato plants, let the snap peas climb, plant earlier, don't bother with lettuce and spinach, grow herbs by seed, don't overcrowd one end and under plant the the other, and carrots are worth the wait.
One lonely pumpkin hanging on the vine,
waiting to turn green
for Halloween time!
1 comment:
Yay for the final harvest of garden produce! And especially for wonderful surprises! :)
Do you know that you could have kept the green tomatoes and they'd have ripened in the house? Or you could have tried 'em fried. I did that once... but never again... yuck! :)
Hope you're feeling better about things now.
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