Grandma B Simple Living: WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SIMPLE LIFE?

Friday, July 23, 2010

WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SIMPLE LIFE?

Notice the space Sidney left between each plant.

Summer is supposed to lazy hazy days where we get to lay in a hammock and drink an iced tea or lemonade, right? It's just not happening for me this year! If you have been following my post you know that Sidney and I have planted a large garden of vegetables and flowers. The planting is my favorite part! We planted, watered, weeded, and waited. Now poor Sidney isn't just picking a few things each day, but baskets of fresh vegetables; squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, and within just a few days fresh sweet corn.

He has helped me with canning these up by peeling over two 5 gallon buckets of cucumbers for our "Red Cinnamon Pickles", slicing another bucket for "Bread and Butter Pickles", helping me to slice and grate numerous bags of zucchini and yellow squash, and in just a few days the corn will be ready! The tomatoes are coming in pretty steady too!

When Sidney planted this garden he was careful to leave lots of extra space between his plants. He said that he didn't want to fight to get around the vegetables so he left more than the directions called for. We did ask God to bless our garden and wow! Has he ever! Just look at the way the garden looks now!

Zucchini Plants are Huge

Squash Plants, tomatoes, and corn looking and tasting good!

The garden has grown so big that you cannot walk between rows. The zucchini are touching the tomatoes, the tomatoes are touching the corn, the cucumbers have gone all over. I have never seen anything like it! It has been beautiful and it is producing delicious produce.

As of today, I have canned 13 jars of bread and butter pickles, 36 pints of zucchini relish, and tonight the cinnamon pickles go into jars. Next are the tomatoes and then I will freeze home grown sweet corn! Yes, we're busy, and things don't seem to simple for now, but this winter when we are enjoying the fruits of our labor, we will be so happy and then we will be enjoying the simple life!

Blessings,
GrandmaB

1 comment:

MichelleJuly 24, 2010 at 5:21 PM
Woo Hoo! I just finished canning my pickles. I only have 6 jars though. But, we NEVER eat 6 jars of pickles in a jar. Thanks for sharing.
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