As of today the beds are planted with tomatoes, bush beans, sugar pumpkins and big max pumpkins; cucumbers, onions and a few summer squash plants. The lettuce, spinach, kale, chard and collard greens are all up and doing well. Peas and beets are coming in too. I've noticed that the potatoes are back - whether I like it or not - they are here to stay in that corner of the garden where they were first planted.
There is something different about this garden then those that have come before. In years past, I enjoyed the planting and the harvesting but I never asked myself the question: what if this was the produce that you were going to sustain your diet on? Instead of having my garden supplement my grocery shopping - this year it feels like my grocery shopping is going to supplement my garden production.
We'll see how it goes.
