It’s a good year to grow groceries

At last, we’re having sunny weather in the Pacific Northwest. I had fun gardening yesterday.

When I was at the Farmers’ Market last week, I bought twice as many garden plants as usual for my container garden – six cucumber and six zucchini plants. With food and gas prices so high, it’s a good year to grow groceries.

I didn’t buy tomato or pepper plants. I usually don’t get a very good yield from them. Last year I bought several cherry tomato plants in hopes I’d have a lot of cherry tomatoes. It didn’t happen. This year, I want some serious food.

I also bought some bush beans seeds. My mom and dad liked to grow those better than pole beans, which need something to climb up on.

I had a nice afternoon on Father’s Day digging in the dirt and thinking about my dad. He was an apple farmer. I remembered how he pruned apple trees and worked in the orchards.

I thought I might spade up an area in my yard that I’ve been reserving for a garden. I didn’t get to it Sunday. I put all the plants in containers on my patio instead.

If the weather continues to be nice and the blogging deadlines permit, I’ll head out into the yard again and tackle that spading. Then I’ll be able to eat more great vegetables. And the exercise will be good for me.

I’ll keep you posted.

Copyight 2008, Rita R. Robison

Comments

[Andrea J. Stenberg]

I usually try to grow some of my groceries. This year however, we've had such an oddly cold and rainy spring here in central Canada that I find myself having done nothing in the garden yet. Every time I've had the time to garden it's been cold and rainy. I'm just not committed enough to the idea of gardening to get out there in the rain.

I'm hoping this weekend the weather will hold out.

Andrea

[Rita]

I hope the weather improves in Central Canada. It's rainy again in the Pacific Northwest, so I don't know about getting the garden spaded.

What kind of vegetables do you like to grow?

Rita