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Vegetables

         Organic vegetable delivery today! I love the green beans. They put the perfect amount for 2 or 3 people. There are no bad spots to pick off. The last batch I cooked with the organic new potatoes, also clean and hand picked for excellence. This week included eggplant which we're trying to grow on the back porch. Ours are in pots, so they're smaller, and turning brown. I guess I should pick them before they get bigger.

         The box has one onion each week, which is sweet, not bitter. Several green peppers and little cucumbers (pickle size). The yellow squash are the straight neck variety, but weren't included this week. And we get 4 peaches each week, which are better than the ones in the grocery store. The tomatoes are healthy and ripe. Our homegrown ones are usually misshaped, or have lines in them. When Dad was more of a gardener (younger), he'd have more varieties, which included nice sandwich size tomatoes, as well as cherry tomatoes. We don't get enough any more to make fried green tomatoes, maybe at the end of the season, when it's too cool for them to ripen.

         The organic corn leaves a little to be desired. It's smaller than the commercial corn, and does have spots on it, or missing kernels. It saves us, though, from going to the farmer's market, where you don't know if it's really organic, or they just say it is. This delivery comes from a reputable farm. The box includes a newsletter from her farm, and includes her family life. The price isn't bad.

         What we grow in the garden feeds the local animals, especially the deer, and sometimes us. We've gathered the squash fairly well. We're growing peppers, too. He has pumpkins planted somewhere. The strawberry plants only feed the birds.

         I want to grow lavender next year. I understand it keeps mosquitoes away. If it does I can spend more time outdoors without being covered with bug spray.