A family in our ward has been kind enough to let us use their garden this year to plant our own vegetables. When we left for Utah, the plants were all quite small and when we came home, it was a jungle. We couldn't believe how big everything had gotten. The above picture shows our tomato plants. They have gotten so big, they look like one big plant. We had to tie some of them up last Saturday, because they have gotten too big for the small tomato cages.
This is a picture of our huge zucchini plant. It may not look that big in the picture, but it's huge. It has been producing quite a few zucchinis too. We have grated quite a bit and put it in the freezer, so we can make zucchini muffins throughout the year. We are planning to freeze more for zucchini casserole too.
We are sharing the garden with another family in the ward, and we decided to share the same garden bed for corn. They went ahead and planted their corn and left half the bed for us. We couldn't tell which half they had planted in, so we went ahead and planted our corn too. It just happened, that both of us planted on the same half. We planted more corn on the other half, which by the time I left for Utah, had barely started poking through the dirt. Needless to say, we didn't get the chance to thin our corn, so we have quite a few stalks and as of Saturday, most of them have two husks of corn. I'm excited, but we don't need quite that much corn.
We've had lots of green beans too. We got quite a few beans on our first picking, but not enough to can, so we ate them fresh. It turns out, that with all of the beans we've picked, we could have canned most of the beans. We are still getting quite a few beans, so we've been more than willing to share. I love fresh green beans, but by the time summers over, I think we'll be glad to eat other vegetables.
Jon's picking zucchini. We haven't given zucchini away yet, but I'm sure we will before the summer is over. We have given away quite a few cucumbers though. I wish I knew how to make pickles. It's been so much fun to have a vegetable garden. We owe a lot to the Shanafelts for keeping it watered for us while we were gone for six weeks. This fall we'll have a few pumpkins to harvest. I'm excited, because I like carving pumpkins and I hate to pay the prices they charge for pumpkins. I'm sure I'll be posting pictures of our pumpkins later this year.
A family in our ward has been kind enough to let us use their garden this year to plant our own vegetables. When we left for Utah, the plants were all quite small and when we came home, it was a jungle. We couldn't believe how big everything had gotten. The above picture shows our tomato plants. They have gotten so big, they look like one big plant. We had to tie some of them up last Saturday, because they have gotten too big for the small tomato cages.
This is a picture of our huge zucchini plant. It may not look that big in the picture, but it's huge. It has been producing quite a few zucchinis too. We have grated quite a bit and put it in the freezer, so we can make zucchini muffins throughout the year. We are planning to freeze more for zucchini casserole too.
We are sharing the garden with another family in the ward, and we decided to share the same garden bed for corn. They went ahead and planted their corn and left half the bed for us. We couldn't tell which half they had planted in, so we went ahead and planted our corn too. It just happened, that both of us planted on the same half. We planted more corn on the other half, which by the time I left for Utah, had barely started poking through the dirt. Needless to say, we didn't get the chance to thin our corn, so we have quite a few stalks and as of Saturday, most of them have two husks of corn. I'm excited, but we don't need quite that much corn.
We've had lots of green beans too. We got quite a few beans on our first picking, but not enough to can, so we ate them fresh. It turns out, that with all of the beans we've picked, we could have canned most of the beans. We are still getting quite a few beans, so we've been more than willing to share. I love fresh green beans, but by the time summers over, I think we'll be glad to eat other vegetables.
Jon's picking zucchini. We haven't given zucchini away yet, but I'm sure we will before the summer is over. We have given away quite a few cucumbers though. I wish I knew how to make pickles. It's been so much fun to have a vegetable garden. We owe a lot to the Shanafelts for keeping it watered for us while we were gone for six weeks. This fall we'll have a few pumpkins to harvest. I'm excited, because I like carving pumpkins and I hate to pay the prices they charge for pumpkins. I'm sure I'll be posting pictures of our pumpkins later this year. 
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The garden looks great! Where is it? We had one bean plant that Brynn started in preschool, which didn't produce more than maybe two pints worth - which we ate fresh, and have three tomato plants which I just clipped back so hopefully they'll start ripening soon. Lots of tomatoes, but none that are turning even the slightest bit red yet. I'm growing impatient!
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