Ah, the garden has finally yielded nectar of the Gods, or in simple language, I finally got a tomato! Let me show you my little garden of Eden here. At first glance it may appear to be a patch of weeds. That would be the untrained eye!
See, if you just look way down here you can see a squash. I planted two full packets of squash so the geese would have lots. One packet was yellow summer squash and the other was zucchini which is there favorite. I have 26 squash plants and only 2 of them are zucchini. Big thank you to Monsato for that one, I am sure.
Here is the beginning of a yellow squash. It is about 2 inches long.
And here is a bunch of them getting ready to be made into goose food. See, if I pick them when they are 5-6 inches long and slice and sauté them with a little garlic and maybe a green onion....oh they are so good. But then the skin is no longer smooth they are almost impossible to chop let alone eat. The geese do not know the difference. Stupid geese!
Now if you look real close here you can spot a little watermelon. It is about 3 inches across and is going to have to do some growing if it wants me to eat it, and better yet, if it does not want to get frozen and have wasted all the summer trying to grow for nothing! Geese don't even like green watermelons!
Some where over there on the west side are some potato vines, but I have learned that I need to wait until the vines dry up or I will have no potatoes. I do not know why the call them "vines" because they grow straight up like a tomato plant. Well, come to think of it, they call those "vines" also. Here is one of them and if you can see a tomato, more power to you.
But, while I was rooting around there, I did find a big red tomato. Hell, I almost jumped out of my skin! What you see here was lunch yesterday. Sorry you missed it, but there was only enough for one, and what can I say?
Oh, look! Here is the angel Lyn set in my garden to make it produce and keep it safe. I am thinking this little chickadee is falling down on the job! But then again, I did get that tomato.
Now, look what is right over the fence! This is my New Mexico Sunflower taking over the area between the Choke Cherry Bush and the actual garden area. That is where I bury all my pets, so it is some very fertile ground. This is the first time I have had blooms for a while, because if you remember, the Llama's were over there for several years and they liked to eat them and they had very long necks and really big teeth!
Remember this?
So there you have my garden. I have been telling myself for 40 years that next year I will do better and nothing has changed; I grow weeds and occasionally God will toss me out a little something to eat. But, you know what? It has worked pretty good so far, so why mess with something that works? Like momma always said..."If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
