Fresh Garden Produce

In some of my earlier posts I mentioned that our garden had suffered a lot trying to grow. There was frost, hail, wind, rain, snow and horses. It has been a real experience nurturing the garden.

I replanted some of the pumpkins, twice. I lost one tomato plant and thought I would lose two others and I have watered the garden hoping that something besides the weeds would grow.

Today, as I watered the garden, I wondered at the ability of the plants left in the garden to not only survive but to produce. I don't know that the cost of what is produced will out weigh the cost of buying the produce from the store but it is certainly more pleasurable.

I have harvested several tomatoes and look forward to make salsa from our harvest. I have also harvested about a dozen onions and have about eighteen more to harvest.

All the time I have put into the garden certainly didn't seem like it is worth until I ate a slice of the first tomato. The taste was indescribable and I knew all the time and effort was worth it.

I won't get a lot of produce off my garden before the first seasonal frost but when I am eating salsa this winter I won't mind it at all.

I hope you had a beautiful time with your garden this year. If you didn't have a garden contact me next spring and I will put you in touch with a nice fertile piece of ground.