I too wish everyone could have a garden, or at least be able to buy from a farmers market or nice produce store. I just took stock of my garden and here's whats there; 12 broccoli plants that look like they will head all at once, 12 celerys that are raided daily (by me), 2 80 foot rows of carrots that came up spotty, 2 rows of onions, 8 parsley plants, 8 green peppers, 6 basils, 30 kale, 40 feet of bush beans for fresh eating, 6 sweet potato plants, 2 plantings of spinach, the older has hugh leaves for soups and au gratin, smaller is almost salad size, more carrots cause hubby was worried not enough came up with the first planting, 3 80 foot rows of garlic and potatoes, just dug up one potato plant and weighed the produce, a whopping 8 ounces, that's pitiful, 33 tomato plants that survived the May 21, 22 killing frost, 4 80 foot rows of sweet corn and 34 hills of winter squash; butternut and long island cheese. The bulk of the winter squash is for the dairy goats when they are pregnant in the winter, I like to feed them something fresh daily when the kids are in utero. Back to the May killing frost, I had to decide whether to cover the potatoes or the tomatoes, did not have enough bed clothes for both. Since the potatoes had been in the ground two months and I would have great difficulty finding seed potatoes in late May, I covered the entire potato patch, no small feat. But it saved them, to do what?? One plant produces 8 ounces of potatoes? Also in the garden is the asparagus bed which is no longer producing. I do not grow cukes or eggplant because of bug problems with both those vegetables. Also am picking raspberries every morning now!! And the herb garden houses the horseradish and my new hazelnut/filbert bushes. And all is sprinkled with zinnias. Whew.
