The Week that Was....Minus the Vegetables

We spent last week filling one of the freezers with vegetables. As cold as the mornings are now....sweatshirt weather, and making me contemplate the  back-to-blue-jeans thing....I think we had better spend this week working on the other one. We are sure going to have a lot of summer squash if nothing else.



 I found a monstrous neck pumpkin yesterday. I grew it from seed I saved from one that was given to us last fall. If it didn't somehow cross with a gourd, rendering the result inedible, we are sure going to have winter squash as well. Good stuff!



If all remains the same, we are planning a large family garden next year. The kids have been trying to farm my garden plots for themselves, but they don't have the time. They do have the tools though, and I have the time, so if we all work together it ought to work out. 

With every news story I read about Chinese chicken etc, I become less enamored of buying anything we can possibly grow. I used to have gardens that supplied every vegetable that we ate, except maybe potatoes...I am not the world's best potato grower. No reason, with some young blood for the hard work of getting the ground ready, that it can't happen again.

And here is a story to make you think, if you are paying a premium price for organic food.

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