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| Bounty from one day last summer. |
We've pretty much established that this Summer, my garden took a back seat to other kinds of growing (and hopefully harvesting). It took a back seat to fitting in a yoga class or a long walk. Sometimes it took a back seat to a bit of a longer sleep in the morning when my adrenals were kicking my butt. It took a back seat to work, mostly. All sowing was done there this year. It had to. And, of course, this past Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer I've had a strange and conflicted relationship to my 5 x 12 plot because of all that it meant for me before The Squeeze left me. But, slowly, I'm getting back in the swing of things.... I have high hopes for the Fall plantings.
But, in the meantime, I'm a failed gardener this summer. Oh sure, I've harvested one bowl worth of tomatoes and some herbs. I picked one japanese eggplant and two cucumbers with a scattering of carrots. And there were the two cabbages that grew ever so slowly over the Fall and Winter and finally were harvested a few weeks ago. And, I picked... um, oh yeah. Nada. I mean I probably have broken some kind of gardening record. A zucchini plant that grew NO zucchini. Stop the presses!
But, if you happen to have had a much better growing season and find yourself sneaking around in the middle of the night dropping produce off on your neighbor's front porch. Here's an idea: Give it to the hungry. I follow a lovely blog called GREEN FRIEDA. And Audrey has posted HERE about a wonderful organization called Ample Harvest So, if you find yourself with an embarrassment of riches in the form of garden produce, maybe this is the solution!
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