10 June 2008
The “vegetables” of our labor
Posted by Brian under: Farmin' .
After pulling many weeds, watering religiously and fertilizing like crazy, the vegetables in our garden are starting to produce stuff that we can eat. Right now it’s zucchini and squash (which have a very strange texture; hopefully it’s the variety and not some strange mutation from radiation in the ground. ). We also have some banana peppers coming up, and some other type of peppers that look like they will set my mouth on fire if I bite into them. Since the temperature has already been in the upper 90’s, I don’t think I’ll try any of the hot peppers right now. The tomato’s are appearing, but still too green to eat. The one vegetable that I’m most excited about is the Giant Pumpkins that Val picked up from Lowe’s. They claim that you can have a 400 to 500 pound pumpkin. I planted them a little later, and they are just sprouting. We’ll see how big they actually get. Val’s parents are coming to visit in three weeks, by then we should be overrun with squash; I hope they are hungry.