In honor of the beginning of summer, our little garden has cooperated quite nicely in starting to fruit. The early fruiting strawberries have been around for quite a while...though we've only gotten a handful of ripe strawberries, so we've had to go picking on the farm to satisfy the little ones' appetite for sweet, juicy, summer goodness. But more recently, we have seen signs of edible things to come...the broccoli started flowering last week, and the yellow gooseberry tomatoes have started to fruit. It's been quite exciting in this little garden of ours.
It's also been keeping us quite connected with the state of the weather - rainy day? Great, no need to water! Hot and dry? May need to water twice or three times! The last time I was this conscious of the weather was when Jason and I were dating long-distance and always flying back and forth (and always worried about how the weather would affect our flights). The garden has been a much less stressful, and much more natural, way of connecting us to nature and the cycles of rain and shine, heat and relief. God's earth is quite something.
In honor of the beginning of summer, our little garden has cooperated quite nicely in starting to fruit. The early fruiting strawberries have been around for quite a while...though we've only gotten a handful of ripe strawberries, so we've had to go picking on the farm to satisfy the little ones' appetite for sweet, juicy, summer goodness. But more recently, we have seen signs of edible things to come...the broccoli started flowering last week, and the yellow gooseberry tomatoes have started to fruit. It's been quite exciting in this little garden of ours.
It's also been keeping us quite connected with the state of the weather - rainy day? Great, no need to water! Hot and dry? May need to water twice or three times! The last time I was this conscious of the weather was when Jason and I were dating long-distance and always flying back and forth (and always worried about how the weather would affect our flights). The garden has been a much less stressful, and much more natural, way of connecting us to nature and the cycles of rain and shine, heat and relief. God's earth is quite something.
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i ended my break from blogspot to find all of your cheery posts! how do you keep your fruit/veggies from being eaten up?? the deer at cincinnati are voracious... even ate the leaves off our ornamental tree!
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