Veggie Bites

My Loving Spouse and I had planted our vegetable garden together, so I was under the mistaken idea that we’d weed, trim, weed, harvest, weed together….weed.  It seems I might just possibly have been mistaken.  That is not to say, I haven’t had ‘help’.  Zoe chews my gloves, steals the picked veggies out of the bowl, climbs through the carrots or tomatoes, but so far has not learned to weed.

I’ve never had so many veggies in one spot!  The guy that planted 3 tomato bushes was sort of thinking ‘crock pot’ (set it and forget it), so now we’ve tomatoes everywhere, but my problem is the ‘waste’ as I hate to see them on the ground and even the chickens can only eat so many.  (Yes, if you live nearby and want tomatoes, feel free to come over).

The learning curve has been sort of steep.  The beans are in ‘hiding’ as the poles used for them to run up where willow poles.  Willow will root anywhere and did, so now we’ve willow growing in amongst the beans as well.

I was careful this year in the planting of my pumpkins and did not plant the whole package (although that was great fun last year)!  They have taken over the strawberries, some of the potatoes and are sneaking through the fence into the flower garden.  They are big and orange and being pumpkins, just sort of wonderful!

The carrots are a huge hit and even the parsnips are doing well, except there is really only one person here who thinks that the parsnips doing well is a good thing.

To say I’ve learned a LOT would be an understatement.

Some of the abundance is going into work with My Loving Spouse…plenty of tomatoes and, no these are not zucchini, these are courgettes!