Garden Favorites

         Here's a link you may enjoy: http://www.self-sufficient-farm-living.com/garden-favorites.html

         As for me, I read at one place that tomatoes are the favorite garden food, closely followed by pole beans. Either kind I now know how to preserve it, if I need to. In the interim, I'll eat them, fresh, too.

         Some of this post is that hard times and good times can be thrifty; and some is also to eat healthy, as best one can.

         Here locally, my above ground tire garden is doing quite well, including the potatoes. Tomorrow I "rehearse" making a peasant meal with potatoes and cabbage and other things. It should be "yummy", but only time will tell. I'll add in some bacon bits mostly for my eating morale.

         So can I be a vegetarian? I don't think so. Even now I am also scouting out rabbit trails for snares. In other words, I do like eating some meat, as paltry as wild rabbit meat may be. Now, even better than ever, I also understand the idea of adding some kind of fat to a meal to add to the flavor, as well as the food value I am also learning. Here locally, the local grocery store still offers pork "fat back”, for example.

         In the meantime, the pole bean seeds arrived via USPS, and I get to plant them and see what happens in about 2 months. Now I have chosen to use the 2nd house railing to help them grow and enjoy the sunshine.

         That's a better deal than my blueberry patch, which I suspect the rabbits may chow down on in their own time, and ruin my blueberry meal for me. Heck, I like blueberries, too. My intent is to have a blueberry patch in about two more years (vice one successful plant). I already have the extra netting to protect them from the rabbits and birds; and I figure the local woods will provide me plenty of poles for both the blueberry netting, and the pole beans for their own growing.