How Does Your Garden Grow?

You can clearly see my garden exploded in growth while I was away.

Hello gentle readers! It's good to be back in blogland. We had a wonderful visit with our kids and grandkids and when I get the almost 400 pics downloaded and organized I'll be posting new pics of the babies who are growing as fast as the weeds in my garden.

As you can see I have a little work to tend to before I can do very much of anything else. A garden filled with homegrown veggies is the most natural thing on earth to me. I grew up with fresh garden food that my Dad worked hard to plant and grow and reap the rewards of for our family dinner table. He would work the soil, plant the seed and then wait for nature to take its course always hoping the rain would come when it was needed. Many times though I did see him carry water to the tomato plants to give them at least a little drink. We had well water so there was none of this turning the water on and giving the garden a soaking. Besides, Dad wouldn't have wasted the water. Many years ago I bought him a little garden sign. I can't quote it exactly now but it said something that included "one is nearer God's heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth." I hope there's some little garden of some kind in heaven that Dad gets to help take care of. It sure would make him happy.

Dad would be proud of the bounty out of my garden; but I can't take any credit. All the credit goes to my dear Hubs for his hard work in making our garden grow. I think he did a splendid job this summer. We have all you see and he still has to pick hot peppers and cherry tomatoes!

I'm not sure what meat will be on the platter tonight for dinner; but I do know fresh green beans, coleslaw, and sliced tomatoes with cottage cheese will definitely fill up the rest of the plate!

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Ruby Tuesday : Ode To The Tomato

It's Ruby Tuesday! Time to post photos with a little red or a lot of red as suggested by our host Mary/The Teach. Please be sure to click on the icon at the beginning of my post to check out all the nice folks participating today or to check out the rules, post your own red photo and join in the fun!

My entry today is a luscious red tomato. This one was straight from my garden and was delicious as part of some tomato sandwiches. In my book tomato sandwiches are one of the delicacies of summer. In the winter when there is nothing but those really hard tasteless varieties in the supermarket I dream of the taste I'm missing.

This year we had an abundance of tomatoes that couldn't be eaten right away by two people so I elected to can a few quarts for sauces and soups during the upcoming winter. The green beans you see are the second picking out of the garden. So far our little garden has yielded twenty-eight quarts of green beans and there are still fresh green beans and tomatoes for the taking.

Happy Tuesday Everyone!

REAPING THE HARVEST

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Ours grew with cucumbers, berries, cabbage, onions and tomatoes!

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Yum, Yum

There were red and green bell peppers and banana peppers to freeze for later, cabbage and onions to go with a corned beef dinner, yummy berries for a cobbler for two, green beans and tomatoes to can for winter and cucumbers for salads and yummy fried green tomatoes and fried zucchini too!
The baskets of beans and tomatoes that you see in the last collage were picked just last evening. Do you think Ms. Carletta will be busy for a couple of days? She most certainly will!

Have a Blessed Sunday everyone!