I saw a shirt on Pinterest that said, “I love Gardening From My Head Tomatoes”. I love clever people!
We’ve had quite a successful garden again this year. It was a rough start, but now we’re rockin and rollin! Here’s how the progress went:
May 27
June 25. Watering with water trailer and sprinkler.
June 30. Irrigating with gated pipe.
July 2
July 10
Sweet corn on May 27
June 25
July 13
Tassel coming out on the sweet corn
Now it’s all about the harvesting. We’ve been blessed by God’s bounty and have been enjoying and sharing snow peas, tomatoes, green beans, cabbage, sweet and hot peppers, green chilies, yellow onions, zucchini, crookneck squash, red beets, pickling cucumbers, slicing cucumbers and sweet corn. The pumpkins are also coming along!
Our daily harvest started out small.
With all the harvesting comes a lot of preserving. I’ve canned a batch of spicy dill pickles, frozen green beans and other veggies, and have got some relish “stewing” as I type. I’ve got more pickles, sweet corn and peaches from Utah waiting in the wings. Click here for a recipe on “putting up” or freezing sweet corn.
But, the daily harvest quickly grew and grew!
Cutting up a beautiful cabbage for Cabbage Burgers! Get the recipe at https://farmpaparazzi.com/2014/08/09/cabbage-burgers/.
We decided to try selling sweet corn at our little local farmer’s market this year. So we planted that big swath I showed you earlier and have peddled the good stuff the last two weekends. There are great people organizing, vending and attending this community affair! I enjoyed it more than I imagined I would.
It’s only August 16, so that means I’ve still got lots of harvesting and preserving to attend to. In fact, I better get off my rump and get out to the garden soon. It’s time for another hour or two of picking!
God Bless You & American Agriculture,
Liz
Then the earth will yield its harvests, and God, our God, will richly bless us. – Psalm 67:6
The Farm Paparazzi 
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