Before And After
As always when one goes on vacation, one comes home to rotting and expired food in the fridge. Gross.
When I got to work yesterday on getting us back into our lives, I started there. I dumped everything that had expired and actually cleaned the fridge out. Yes you heard right, I wiped the grime and garlic shavings and mystery sauces off my shelves and the walls.
Doesn’t happen very often.
Then we proceeded to the garden center and grocery store to get a handle on our current house situation.
Before:
After:
Wow. And yes, that bottom shelf is 99% from the garden harvesting the kids and I did yesterday after we picked up our tomatoes off the ground and re-staked them.
Before:
After:
Ahh…all the fresh, organic Colorado Peaches one could want to eat in a day…which we will do today!
And our garden harvest:
I ate every one of those cherry tomatoes standing in the kitchen. I gave not one away to my husband. Not one away to my children. Nope. I have been waiting all summer for those little orange beauties. They can eat what they find themselves…if they are ever lucky enough to find one….hooohooohaaahaaahaaa…..
And our carrots:
I can’t believe it! My son wanted to plant carrots in a raised bed we made exclusively for them. I planted them diligently and then it rained. And rained. And rained. So all of the carrot seeds I had painstakingly planted in rows with little signs for each column denoting the type planted, washed to the outside halves of the bed. They began to sprout more in clumps than in rows. A mishmash of carrot blends.
We picked one every so often just to see, and they were all puny so I figured it was because they were growing so close together that we were out of luck.
Boy was I wrong!
The kids brought them in and washed them by themselves while I was still in the garden. Of course they washed them in the bathroom sink, which I am not sure I am actually thrilled about, cause eww I didn’t clean that yesterday, but they were so excited I couldn’t tell them to stop!
The mess was huge, but well worth the joy on their faces as they walked around their court munching on the freshly harvested carrots they grew!
Spill it: Tell me about your biggest joy from the garden so far! What have you watched grow that you had no idea it did that (for us corn) or that you picked that tasted oh so heavenly? (for us the orange cherries and the purple tomatoes)
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August 28th, 2010 at 10:11 am
so lovely! black thumb my ars….look at your produce! I have been loving the tomatoes as well, we made (by we I mean I) the yummiest bruschetta the other day….as it’s getting to the point where I have to make stuff w/ the tomatoes or they’ll go bad. I heart this time of year!