HARVEST has begun!

[phesina]

Those tomatoes have me licking my chops!

Beautiful pictures, and beautiful gardening! Thank you.

[jennielynn1970]

My dad has been feeling well enough this year to do his vegetable gardening. I grew up on a 100 acre farm, so we always had fresh veggies and stuff (like chickens, beef, lamb... another reason I eat basically just chicken and fish, lol).

His garden this year has been BEAUTIFUL!! We just had a 25 lb watermelon come in, and have a bunch more that are almost ripe. They are soooo yummy!! The corn has come in about 1 1/2 weeks ago, the eggplant, zucchini, cabbage, beans, peppers (green and hot), tomatoes, cucumbers, cantaloupes, red beats. The broccoli and cauliflower better come in soon!!

My dad is just so happy to be in the garden. He has had so many health issues, and we're just lucky that he is here with us. Last year he didn't even have the strength to go out and do a small garden, let alone the normal sized garden he usually does. It's been dry, but their area has been getting more rain than we have 45 minutes away.

When it had been strawberry season, my mom picked over 250 quarts of them!!! And strawberry season goes quick!!

We're hoping that the japanese beetles have not totally destroyed the grape vines. We usually do our own jellies and jams as well.

Fresh veggies really spoil you when it comes to expectations!