Garden Produce

Well...like the phrase goes...One man's surplus is another man's feast. In our case, it's our zucchini. We have one plant that just went crazy. It's huge...almost 8 feet across. My son's just spotted one that they didn't pick in time, and it was huge. At least 2 feet long.

My hubby took it to work with a couple of smaller ones, and before he even was gone an hour, they were all gone. Especially the big one. The teachers at his school was having a hard time getting hers to grow, so she was thrilled at the produce. I was thrilled when I took some to Curves with me and all but two of them were gone by today. I never dreamed anyone would WANT zucchini...I mean, we like it, but we're getting tired of it by now.

I've only just started making zucchini bread - it never occurred to me to freeze it. I've been freezing everything else...

Anyway, good things come in strange packages. I just hate seeing it go to waste, so this was thrilling to me. And, we got some nice tomatoes from someone else in exchange, and since ours are still green...I'm way happy!

Garening 100....101?

I am not a gardening fanatic. In fact, if I had my way, I'd probably have a little box on the porch with a cherry tomato, a bell pepper plant, a zuccini plant , perhaps some lettuce and some herbs. Something that I could sit and weed in a half hour and keep for fresh use. sigh...bliss.

But...since I am striving to follow the words of the prophets and have a large family that is difficult to feed cheaply, a garden is a necessity. So is weeding...and making the kids get up to help -- which is such a joy, I can't tell you. My 17 year old decided to have an attitude about half way through, because weeding is like, not his thing, you know? And he'd already done his bit, and I never said there had to be a unlimited time thing and hey, he was finished. He finally came back and finished with the family, but he's going to be unhappy when he discovers his nintendo time is cut short because of attitude.

sigh.

At least one daughter came out without complaining. The other one wouldn't even turn over. We worry that in a real emergency, she wouldn't wake up before the house burned up or fell down around her ears in an earth quake. I pity her hubby when she has children and they wake up during the night...

At least it was a cooler night last night and I didn't have to move into the basement. grin.

Anyone need some apricots?? We have loads.