Gardening (kinda) Post

This is our garden. Its bigger than last year (by a lot). I have already been told it will be bigger next year. Eric wants to make it the entire backyard (that he cleared out last year - lets just say its DOUBLE if we do that!) Anyway, in this garden you see (front to back) hot peppers (40), pickling cucumbers, edamame, asparagus, squash and zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes (and more tomatoes!), snap peas and corn on the right. Since this picture the snap peas have been replaced with regular beans and the second round of corn and edamame has also been planted.

We have tomatoes (and cucumbers) coming out our ears! We have 17 tomato plants and so far have made brushetta (twice), cucumber and tomato salad (almost every other night - yuck!), salads full of fresh veggies, coucous with tomatoes - everything we can think of to eat them up. We will probably make a tomato pie soon with some bigger ones and then have to start canning - its ALOT of tomatoes folks! Eric has been making lots of pickles (and the cucumber and tomato salad) to use up the cucumbers, all to no avail. We both bring about 5 a week to work and still - cucumbers!

The picture below is the amount of food (minus the 10 pickling cucumbers we had to go back and make a second trip for) that we picked last weekend after being gone for TWO days! We are planning a trip to Orlando to see Eric's sister over the 4th - we might need to pay some friends to come pick for us if we really think we can be gone for 4 whole days!


That being said, if you were thinking about coming to visit anytime in the near future - please don't hesitate. I swear, we will have enough food to feed a couple more mouths!
This picture makes me want to sing the Jonny Appleseed prayer:
Oh! the Lord is good to me,
and so I thank the Lord,
for giving me,
the things I need,
the sun and the rain and the appleseed.
The Lord is good to me!

Indeed, the Lord is good to us! We have been blessed - hope you are all having a blessed day as well, and I still promise I will make Eric do a post thats actually about gardening - and not just the garden overview I gave!