Saturday, August 29, 2009

How does your garden grow?

Well, as for ours, it's a bit of a slow go, but today we had:

--Some corn on the cob, which was the same kind of anemic as the stalks that it grew on, but what there was of it was tasty. Just little ears this year. Some of the stalks grew but forgot/refused to produce ears, so a little disappointing. Ah, well, hoping for better results next year...

--Some green beans straight from the garden patch. They were pretty tasty, and there are still some left, so no complaints here.

The potatoes are not yet ready, but they are easily the most-anticipated crop this year, at least for me. One of the children mentioned the pumpkins--I rarely pay attention to them because they do pretty well all by themselves every year--but I will have to go check out how they are doing. Raspberry season is basically over, which is always sad, but the bushes did a great job of producing this year.

Lamenting the fact that the cord to the computer is having a problem, and thus we are unable to put pictures up currently, but hopefully we will have that figured out soon. My posting numbers have been anemic lately, but hopefully I will get back in the habit of doing new (to me) food storage/emergency preparedness things sometime soon so there will be something to post about... hope all is well with everyone, and that all of your gardens are putting out a huge harvest!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice post Marie. Every year at this time I have the same problem. SOOOOOO Much food from the garden all at one time and not enough time to can or freeze it all properly. Last week we did 50 quarts of sweet corn, untold numbers of tomatos, Dehyrated Oregano and other herbs. I know it is a desirable problem, but I am getting exhausted, I am after all an old man.....

Carl In Wisconsin

Oh by the way, it is cold enough here today that we have a fire going to warm up the house....

2 Tramps said...

We are also looking forward to harvesting our potatoes. The deer got in and ate some of the tops but the spuds below should be fine.

Marie said...

Carl--Congratulations on your harvest! Your corn obviously did much better than mine did... :) Hey, and you are only as old as you feel--that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Thanks as always for your comment!

2 Tramps--No worries about deer here, not rural enough, but I'm glad that deer activities there won't really affect your harvest. I wanted to check mine already, but it isn't really time yet--need to work on my patience. :) Thanks for your comment!

Anonymous said...

marie and tramps. I went to the mailbox on saturday evening and there smack dab in the middle of the raod was a deer, I was hoping he left the good mail and took the bills....LOL


Carl

Marie said...

Carl--Hey, that would be quite the trade-off if they would take the bills, it would help make up for the produce I'm sure they help themselves to....thanks for the day brightener!