Update on the Garden

I thought I’d share with you all today an update on our garden. First though, I have to make someone salivate! He and I have talked about eating tomato sandwiches, from our childhood up to today, and I’d like to share something with just Craig for a minute.

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Hey Craig…I ate my first fresh, vine-ripe, right out of the garden tomato sandwich just a couple days back!! Oh man…it was soooo good. Miracle Whip, salt, and heavy black pepper, I gotta tell you I was thinking about how you’d love to have one of these! I swear, it was so juicy that when I finished it, it was all over the front of my shirt! I’ve always said, “It ain’t good unless you get it all over you!” Okay, I got that outta my system! The garden. Although we’re dry again, but have a 40% chance for rain today, the rain we have had has jump started our garden for us. The corn is even doing much better now, to the point of beginning to tassel some. (Picture 1) It looks so much better than it has all spring, and using Kunoichi’s advice, we’re now putting grass clipping from the yard between each row of corn. In picture 2 the outside rows are cucumbers and squash, all from seed, with the squash ending half way down row two, and speckled butter beans, finishing out the other half of that row. The next three rows, though growing together now are Blue Lake bush beans. The Blue Lake beans are a string bean and have 5-6 inch pods, and are one of the favorite “canning beans.” Their maturity date is 58 days, and are said to yield 120 pounds per 100’ row. Those guys have little beans all over them now, and were our first beans to bloom. Deb loves them, and I might eat em once in a while myself! More...