Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Veggie Tales
I have been feeling a little guilty today for bragging on our gardening efforts and results. I did not set out to make anyone feel bad, especially our friends in Alaska who work really hard in their gardens combating constant drizzle and hungry slugs. In all my wildest dreams, I never pictured myself living in Kansas but that is exactly where I find myself so I was determined to try and make the best of missing the mountains and good ole' salt air and plant a garden. The one thing I totally desired to grow was a pumpkin. It is something that takes some good weather and a longer growing season and I have never grown one before in my life. The three pumpkin plants that looked so very small in the big space I planted them, have now completely filled the area and then some. It was so exciting the day I saw the first baby pumpkin on the vine. We shall see how successful this venture is if even one reaches maturity. The rest of the veggies are just the bonuses. We have harvested two beautiful zucchini this week with more not far behind. We also have three cucumbers that are just days away from being perfect and the fresh lettuce has been a real treat. Tomatoes are now hanging in clusters, still green, but looking great and guess what? Not a slug in sight. Gee, it's only June. Lest anyone think we have it easy, you should know that we had some torrential rain that ripped the leaves of the poor plants to shreds and we have planted carrots twice and both times the seeds seem to have been washed away, but we have remained strong in our resolve to have some fresh veggies. We miss our Army guy a lot and that is our lemons and when life gives you lemons, you get to make lemonade. Our garden is our lemonade, something to occupy our mind and keep us busy until he gets home. Next summer we will make a farmer out of him too. So good growing all you farmer type people and enjoy those veggies.
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Gosh Veta! Your garden sounds great! My pumpkin plants are only 4 inches out of the ground! Did you start from seed or small plant? And when??? I started my own seeds early in April. I have nothing to brag about except that I have radishes and spinach too.
What was your winter like?
It's a long saga but we did start some seeds in February but it was way early to put them in the ground so we lost a bunch but the two sugar pumpkins are from our seeds and the jack pumpkin I bought at Ace hardware I think. It was pretty small though. We had cold temps through February and then it was really nice in March. However the week before Easter, right before we were going to put stuff in the ground, we had frigid temps about 15-18 degrees and a lot of farmers will probablylose a lot of fruit because all the trees were in blossom and the frost killed everything, but we started putting stuff in shortly after that. It has been fun and a learning experience since we are rather new at it.
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