After months of effort and waiting, the time to harvest our garden has finally arrived! We’re pretty proud of what we accomplished with our square foot gardening, and I just had to have a photo of the whole gang – a class photo, if you will. Everything you see here is completely organic, grown without any fertilizers or pesticides. And it’s all really tasty! Even the stuff I don’t particularly like!
I’m not a huge fan of peppers, but now we’ve got a whole bunch of them for Justin to sneak into my food. We’ve got green wonder peppers and red cayenne peppers and both red and green serranos too.
Our white potatoes grew in some really funky shapes and the beets can’t be beat!
We grew several kinds of tomatoes, and I have to say, they are hands down the very best tomatoes I’ve ever eaten. Slice up these chocolate cherry tomatoes, throw on a little salt and balsamic vinegar, and you’ve got Heaven on a plate.
I can eat the grape tomatoes straight off the vine, or by the bagful. And the valencia orange tomatoes are great on a BLT.
The yard-long beans really lived up to their name!
The cosmic purple carrots are really a sight to see! And the spaghetti squashes are bountiful and delicious.
Last but not least, the mini pumpkins. We’ve already used some to make pumpkin soup and pumpkin muffins!
Right about now, you’re probably wondering where those corn-babies I’ve gushed so much about are…
Well, I have some bad news.
Over the summer, our corn was attacked in the night not once, not twice, but three times by neighborhood raccoons! Each time, we stepped up our security efforts, starting with a motion sensor light all the way up to an electric fence. Despite our best attempts to protect it, the wily raccoons ate our corn like they grew it themselves and left us nothing but bare cobs and broken hearts.
But hope is not lost! We’re already discussing ideas to keep next year’s corn from meeting a similar fate. Until then, we’ll have a winter of delicious meals to comfort us.
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