Garden Bounty

Every year we plant a garden.  Even though we leave for several weeks throughout the summer, it has worked for us.  We come home to a tangled mass of weeds and some dead plants but after two days of weeding and pruning we are usually able to finish out the summer with a fun variety of plants that suppliment our summer diet.  Through the years I've branched out in my selection and tried some new things and I've also planted several things that stick around for multiple years without much tending to.  We planted raspberries and an apple tree last year.  We have yet to see ANY raspberries and the one apple we had fell off in a wind storm so we ate it as a family - it wasn't quite ripe but it came off OUR tree!  Anyway, those things where kind of a flop this year (I know apple trees take a few years so I'm patient, but the raspberries - come on!).  But the rest of the garden has been great!  We've had tomatoes, zhuccini, corn, strawberries, beets, carrots, radishes, pumpkin (by accident, it came from our compost) and potatoes.  The kids and I pulled several goodies out of the ground the other day and made some baby food for Jasper - totally homegrown.  Take that Gerber!