Frock Farmers

We had always talked about it and I told you earlier that we decided to try it - be farmers, well if a small garden counts. But as you can tell by the picture it was nice and green and went GREAT this year! But I still must say wow when I go to the Horicultural Building at the Fair. We keep saying we are going to enter something there or in the Art Building, maybe next year, lol. Plans are already going for next year what we are going to add and move, etc. This year we did tomatoes, peppers, onions, green beans, lettuce, corn and pumpkins. So the first 5 items did wonderful and the corn grew nice and tall, but it did not have a nice flavor, but the positive is I had corn stalks to decorate in the fall with and the pumpkins we thought omg we are going to have tons, but as they grew they did not all produce well and we did have a couple of pumpkins, but they were small and able to decorate a while with, but not long because they rotted. So with that being said we are not doing pumpkins this year and the corn we are moving, but really only care to get the corn stalks again. We have talked about adding to the onions this year and adding zucchini and cucumbers. And if this year goes well again we have talked about adding to the garden space if needed for the next year. So needless to say we have lots of peppers, tomato juice, spaghetti sauce and salsa in the freezer, which is awesome! So next year I am going to add zucchini bread to that and pickles, yummy! Might even try some canning instead of freezing everything because it does take up lots of space in the freezer, thank goodness we have an extra refrigerator in the garage.