FIRST HARVEST!!!

CAN'T WAIT FOR CORN!

BEANS DOING GOOD

PLANTS

FRIED ZUCHINNI

Today Mitchell and I feasted on our first fried zuchinni of the year out of MY garden! It was delish. There is nothing like growing, harvesting and eating food that you yourself have grown! Laurie if you read this, I know you'll be proud!! Also I snapped photos of the corn and beans that have really taken off now that we got a little rain, unfortunately so have the weeds. So I was out hoeing and pulling a few this evening. I'm going to visit Orschelen Farm Store tommorrow to see if they have any buckwheat seed. This is a summer cover crop to plant in bare areas of the garden to choke out weeds and add organic matter to the garden when you till it in. This is the first year that I'm going to try cover cropping. In the fall I plan to plant a nitrogen fixing cover crop to till in the following spring. The corn is getting taller, can't wait to bite my teeth into that! Won't be long. It is a 74 day corn so it should be ready a couple of weeks after the 4th. My son was proud of our prize tonight and he is beginning to show some interest in the garden finally. Of course at 13 he is too cool for things like that, but eating it is a whole different story! Funny, story, his dad called him today and he didn't believe he had Mitchell on the phone. He thought it was a buddy of his and he kept asking for Mitchell. He finally hung up and Mitchell called me and told me, so I call Donnie and said That is your son, his voice is changing!!! Which it is. Oh, my I don't know if I'm ready for all this. Sunday, I plan on making That's Good Chicken which you will find in my older post. This will make good use of my herbs that are out of control! It taste great and is so moist. Look for a post this weekend. I'll share some more recipes!! Till then....