Yes, I've spent a lot of time gardening. I sometimes giggle. Our garden has more square feet than our house! haa haa haa. We have a HUGE garden. (my strawberry beds have over 100 plants...and we are seriously contemplating clearing the land and doubling that....I eat a LOT of strawberries....I LOVE strawberries!) So you can see we plant a LOT of what we plant. Let me rephrase that. The foods that we eat a LOT of...we plant a LOT. Green beans anyone? I'll be canning bushels upon bushels of green beans. I eat them almost every day. :-) Peas? Well, we eat a lot of peas too. Tomatoes...well you need a lot of those because I make my own tomato sauce...not to mention canned tomatoes for things like chili and such. And yes, i try to preserve enough so that we don't have to buy these staples from the store. Home preserved foods are SOOO much tastier. Soooo yes, our garden is a big deal! over the weekend I spent probably more than 15 hours out there with the tiller, the shovel, a rake, packets of seeds, flats of plants, compost, water hose and a big jug of water. :-) (the water jug was for me!) Love to see the garden take shape. :-)
But do you know what I'm just ACHING to eat. What the focus of my taste buds have? Zucchini! I want some breaded and baked zucchini . I can taste it! I can smell it. I'm just DYING for it! Yes, I could probably go out and buy a zucchini at the store. But woudl it be the same thing? Would it taste the same?
Probably not! Plus, in a few months I'll be begging someone to take some zucchini off my hands (what possessed me to plant 12 zucchini plants I don't know......haa haa haa. I do make my sweet pickle relish from zucchini, and I do zucchini bread and butter pickles which I think taste the same if not better than the ones I make with cucumbers....we will eat zucchini with every meal..HOPEFULLY!)
Grow zucchini grow!!!