Things are very different for growing a spring garden here in Florida. We have already harvested all the cucumbers and green beans that we will get from this garden, and it is only the first part of June. For the rest of the very hot, hot summer we can plant okra and Southern peas, like black eyes, crowders, purple hulls and creamers. We already are planning our fall garden and are converting to a square foot method, like the one Tracee has planted.
It was so rewarding two nights ago when the only thing on the table from the grocery store was the chicken, rice and salad dressing. The garden provided us with green beans, new potatoes and a salad of cukes and tomatoes with fresh herbs. I sooo love being a country girl.
4 comments:
I agree! Isn't it great to walk out the back door and "pick dinner"? Your veggies look pretty in the basket. I'm sure they tasted even better!
Coming from New Jersey, I am still finding it so strange that on June 9th we are already finishing up with our gardening for this season! It goes too fast!! Now we will be listening to our northern friends talking about all their gardening for the next few months! I loved the picture of your vegetables!
Juri
How wonderful it all looks!
My Dad always had the most wonderful garden in the summer....I can still remember shelling all of those peas! But nothing tasted better. And for all of that hard work, some of my sweetest memories are of sitting under the oak trees husking the corn, talking and laughing.
I know what you mean, Pam. I treasure memories of shelling peas and butterbeans with my mother and grandmothers. I was only a child then, and helping them wasn't a lot of fun to me because it was so hot and the work was tedious. But it was required so I did it. I listened to them visit and joined in the conversation. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized the value of those times spent with the "matriarchs" of my family.
Cheryl
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