Last night for Family Home Evening we cleaned out the garden. A big winter-type storm is supposed to blow in tonight, dropping temperatures drastically, so we figured we should get everything out that we didn't want to lose.
We were mostly done anyway. We haven't had corn or onions for a while. I don't know why we bother with the carrots - they don't seem to get that big and then we've wasted a whole row of the garden with them. But we did pick two grocery sacks full of tomatoes and about three sacks of peppers. We left the pumpkins, since they like the cold, and will pull them up in a week or two as we are decorating for Halloween.
I don't think we'll do as many tomatoes next year (we had 5 plants). We like having fresh tomatoes for salads and salsa and whatever, but we just ended up so many tomatoes by early September that we ended up giving quite a few away so that they wouldn't go to waste. I did, with substantial help from my friend Nicole, can 6 quarts of tomatoes, but it seems like a whole lot of trouble that doesn't save you that much money, since you can buy tomatoes fairly cheap if you catch a sale. Maybe I'll change my mind - we'll see how much we use this winter. We want to do more onions next year and maybe try some beans and lettuce. But for now, gardening season is over.
No comments:
Post a Comment