Earlier this year I planted my first ever veggie patch and to my surprise it was quite successful. I ended up with more tomatoes and cherry tomatoes than we could eat and I became the proud parent to the most gorgeous baby pumpkin. It wasn’t all that easy to grow the pumpkin I had to intervene with a little pumpkin IVF see my post My IVF Pumpkin for a few tips on pumpkin growing!
It was very exciting when this little guy grew, it was fun watching it get bigger and bigger. There were times when we’d check it one day and you would swear it had grown over night. Eventually the little guy was all grown up and the vine started to dry out so we picked it off and brought it inside!
He didn’t stand a chance, and was turned in to pumpkin soup almost straight away and gobbled up for tea last night! Yummy and how exciting to eat something that I grew from a seed, I’m so at one with nature right now! Ok not really out of four pumpkin plants I really only got one pumpkin, I blame the bees.
Anyway if you haven’t give a veggie patch ago why not try it, it’s great never running out of tomatoes or making something out of what you grew. Google what to plant in your state at this time of the year and in a month or two you will have some of your very own veggies to eat and it’s a great lesson for the kids that vegetables don’t grow in supermarkets!
Renee
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