Yesterday I spent some time in my garden. My potato plants had died, I think from a bug and I was not expecting much, but a coworker suggested that I try digging up the potatoes, even if I only got baby potatoes. Much to my surprise I got some pretty big potatoes. I also got about 6 baby potatoes. I put four back in the garden in the hopes that I would get another round of plants and I brought two inside. I think I remember a science project where you hang a potato over a glass of water and watch it sprout. I thought that it might be fun for the kids to watch a potato germinate. Anyway, here is a shot of my potato harvest. Not bad for my first try and I only spiked one with the shovel!
I have been picking a lot of tomatoes and cherry tomatoes on a daily basis. Luckily I really like tomatoes since no one else in my house will eat them. I have also given some to Linda and Shannon. Here is one day's harvest:
Finally, when I was out in the garden I had to call Mackenzie over to see the hiding zucchini. It was right on the ground under all of the leaves and it was gigantic! I didn't think to take a picture of it until I was shredding it up for zucchini bread. Here is a shot of two loaves that I baked yesterday. I baked two more loaves tonight and I am guessing I have enough for 5 more loaves. It has a ton of sugar in it, but we all like zucchini bread so I figure I can freeze a bunch for some treats later in the year.
Finally, we have a fairly good size pumpkin on the pumpkin vine, 2 cucumbers on the cucumber vine and baby green peppers as well. All in all it has been a great gardening season for me. My new bean plants (the first round gotten eaten by a bunny) are starting to come up. Hopefully we will get some beans before the end of the season, but even if we don't I am going to consider this my best gardening year yet.
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