Garden Success

Too often I dwell on our garden failures. We've had a few of those this year. The onions choked by crab grass. The blight that conquered the tomatoes. The vines that bore no grapes. The corn blown down by a storm. The ground hog who chomped our sweet potato vines.

But much of our garden prospered. I had peppers and green beans to give away. Our berries were abundant.

You have heard often about our prolific zucchini. I wish I would have kept track of how much zucchini we hauled in from those few plants.

I don't want this to be a comparison game if your garden did not do well. I know many have suffered drought this summer. But I thought I had to do a little counting of blessings.

We have never grown such nice watermelon. Not only were the fruit huge, but they were sweet and delicious. The worse thing about these watermelon is that I was winded by the time I had one carried in to the house!



Today we cut the last one. We are going to miss this taste of summer sunshine.



Our winter squash have been equally successful. I told someone yesterday that we had ten squash on our porch. My daughter corrected me by saying there was fourteen! And that is after giving some away. And we haven't even brought all of them in from the garden!



Can you guess that next you'll be reading lots of recipes using pumpkin or winter squash?

If you like such info, the watermelon seed is Ali Baba from Baker Creek. The winter squash seeds are Red Kuri from Baker Creek, Mini Green Hubbard from Stokes, Ultra HP from Stokes, and Green and White Cushaw seeds from my sister-in-law.

What are you thanking the Lord for in your garden this year?