We're gonna expand our garden to about 5 x 30' this year -
We got enough tomatoes last season (4 different varieties) to harvest by the 5 gallon bucket, give 'em away and still can 4 cases for the winter - my bride is a midwestern farm girl, she does it all...
Gonna do cukes too for homemade sweet & dill pickles - she's got her mom's old recipes -
Hell, last year we had beefsteaks the size of cantalopes, too - plus red peppers, jalapenos and Italian, and those little Portuguese peppers I used to call firecrackers - the ones my grandma, mom and aunts used to make a relish out of and can - plus the usual herbs - a massive basil bush, fresh dill, thyme and oregano...
This year we'll do lettuce, snap peas, green beans, kale (ya
gotta have curvsh for the soupesh), tomatoes, peppers & herbs - I wanna see how we can max out the sq. footage production in a small space -
Figure next week I'll start working the beds - the first rite of spring...
Plus real veggies are a treat, not like the crap you get in supermarkets...
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