We are now eating peas, green beans, and purple beans fresh from our garden! I love it. The kids won't eat if I pick them and bring them in, but they will stand by the garden all afternoon and eat. We have green tomatoes and the pumpkin plants are big and strong. I will be so excited if we get pumpkins. I was saying to the boy today that we can make pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread and all sorts of yummy pumpkin recipes. He said "let's make pea bread today!!" Hmm... not sure that would be as tasty. I think we've had very good garden weather lately. Warm sunny days with rain every few days. I used left over kiddie pool water to water the garden and tomato plant today, but otherwise haven't had to in quite awhile.
Two other points of interest... I've been reading Let it Rot by Stu Campbell and have lots of good ideas for the compost pile. Unfortunately all of them take at least some $$ and we have very little of it these days, so for now I think we'll keep throwing stuff on the pile and see how it goes. The slow method :) Also, our quince bush (tree) is growing a fruit! We found one when we first bought the house, but there was nothing last year. I think the pruning really helped. We got beautiful flowers on it this year and now a fruit. I wonder if I should prune it every year...
Do you see it? Middle of the picture, slightly towards the top.
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