Bumper Crop

So I went to Puerto Rico last week. Friends and neighbors picked the garden while I was gone.
I picked the garden today.

I don't think I have ever picked so much in one day!


 

And there is more to come!!!



2010 I had 3 weddings and 3 grandchildren born. Enough said!

2011 on Easter weekend I purchased my plants and seeds. The following week the tornado stuck. I was late getting it planted and no good produce.

2012 I started studying on ways to produce more. I had met Jim Kennard and taken a gardening class in his home when he lived in Gardendale, AL. http://www.growfood.com/   I visited the garden of an old friend, Duane Roland, who follows the Mittleider method. (Really he was my boss at Mr. Steak and I had not seen him in 40 years until last October.) And I also visited my sister Pat's garden.

Pat's year round garden. Beautiful!

Duane Roland's garden.

I still did not plant until after Easter. I did not plant everything on the same day but began around the 16th of April.
Next to my grandchildren and my dog, I have loved taking pictures of my garden.

I even added irrigation to my beans and tomatoes.
But the spring has been wonderful weather wise.
I only wish the winter had been colder to kill the pests!

Now to reap the rewards!
Well, almost. I will now start canning beans for Thanksgiving Dinner and cold winter nights.

But I will take off for the birth of my next granddaughter, Sarah Grace (I think) this Friday. I may need to bring her big sister Hannah home to help me pick again next week!

And I am to be set apart as Northport Ward Relief Society President tonight with a tennis date tomorrow plus working at the Birmingham Temple. Life is GOOD!

 Hannah Cate playing with my "scarecrow".

Hannah walking through the squash. Attached to her back is a dryer sheet to keep away mosquitoes.

 My Little Rockers (Little Rock, AR) or my Little Rockies (moving to Denver, CO) were able to plant some pink eyed peas and pick some summer squash. Such wonderful helpers!!!!