Harvest

I have had a really great time gardening this year. As the plants have gotten bigger I have needed to water them everyday instead of every couple of days. It has been fun going out there everyday and checking to see if any of the Veggies are growing and ready to eat. I have picked quite few zucchinis and yellow squash. I did not realize how big zucchinis can actually get, and I am finding out how versatile they are and how many things you can use them for. I did not like them when I was a child, and neither do my children, but I really like them now. I have not really had the chance to try out any fun recipes with them yet, but I have enjoyed just eating them sauteed with butter. It is kind of amazing how food tastes better when you know that you grew it.

Here are some pictures that I took with the kids holding the first of the "fruits of my labor". You can see how excited Jacob is about the fact that I am growing vegetables. I was pretty excited the other day when I picked a zucchini the size of my forearm. I really want to get a recipe for zucchini bread and make it. I am going to try to make time to do that tomorrow.

I have been waiting for my tomatoes to ripen. I see all the little green tomatoes on my cherry tomato plants and the big ones on my tomato plant out front and I think that they will probably ripen when we are on vacation :-(. However, yesterday I saw some RED on the cherry tomato plants when I was watering them. I quickly picked the 4 little tomatoes and brought them in to take a picture and share with them family, Brittany, Alyssa, Blayke and I all enjoyed them.