Our garden got a little out of control this year. We planted large tomatoes, grape tomatoes, green beans, snap peas, eggplant, romaine lettuce, bell peppers, sunflowers, some red wildflowers. We also have a newer apple tree and peach tree and this year we got a couple apples from the tree. All of our tomato starts grew, so we transplanted all of them and it made a big old jungle of tomatoes. Sadly, my boys weren't as excited to snack on the grape tomatoes as they had been in the past so we ended up with a lot of bad tomatoes. Many of our large tomatoes had black bottoms which my brother later told me that it could be from a lack of calcium in the soil or from inconsistent watering. The snap peas would get eaten as soon as they were ready. The green beans got covered by a large tomato plant, Max was able to harvest a bunch of them but I wasn't organized enough to cook them, ha!. We had plans of making salsa and ketchup and maybe even spaghetti sauce but I just never got it together. We did use a whole lot of romaine lettuce and most of our zucchinis. The pepper and eggplant are still not fully grown so I hope they finish before it gets too cold. I gotta make some Armenian stew. Anyway, I guess I'm just writing this out to learn for future years. we don't need so many tomatoes, have a plan when it comes to green beans, grow lots of romaine because it grows fast and is delicious, and more snap peas because everyone loves them! And I didn't really visually document the garden much but here is a day that Edwin and i went out to collect tomatoes.
I've only tried one pepper so far and it wasn't very good so I'm hoping that I just had picked it too soon and the rest will be good.
Anyway, I feel like we were kind of wasteful with our food, but I'm learning a lot for next year. Also, before we planted our garden, we would let our chickens play in the area we were going to use so they could eat up the weeds and fertilize the ground. We kinda felt like farmers, so that was fun.
Cute little egg plant! It's true it hard to keep up with proper food consumption some times. I'd be interested in the process of making ketchup!
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