Most mornings start out this way...
before the heat of the day slows everyone down...
And while Annie and the horses are getting their exercise,
I finish morning feeding and head to the garden.
The garden is exploding with life right now.
Each morning as I water the vegetables I can see the change from the previous day.
Meals are homegrown now.
Fresh salads with lettuce...
radishes....
sugar peas...
The broccoli plants are lush and full...
each cradling a juvenile head of broccoli in its foliage.
The corn gets at least an inch taller each day...
The strawberries will be plentiful this year.
Green berries soak up daily sun on their path towards ripeness.
As I watered and weeded, this fellow warbled his morning song from atop
the gazebo.
Such a sweet serenade!
I am about as happy as can be these days.
The garden is my haven, my heaven.
Time spent here rejuvenates me.
That alone is worth all of the work...
and then to top it off:
homegrown produce to nourish us.
The garden feeds us...body and soul!
Comments
And -- that is one serious garden you have! How do you manage to eat all the food you grow? Many thanks for sharing your world with us!
Maggy
As for our garden....we are BIG vegetable eaters. What we don't consume right away gets frozen or canned or shared. Wait until you see our tomato and pepper harvest. I planted 40+ tomato plants and about 50 pepper plants this year. Yikes....the end of the summer will be quite busy in the kitchen!
All I hear is bird songs and Annie and the gray and white Little(?) running!
It seems like they are best running buds...just one look from the gray and white one and they both take off!
I love it!!
Ah, you are so lucky to have all that wonderful space to grow such lovely veggies! So envious!
I am currently enjoying the fresh veggies that I buy at the Farmer's Market. They taste so much better than what is sold in the supermarket! Yum!
I have all kinds of lettuce in my containers . . . tin garden compared to you! But, I had my first fresh salad the other day! YUM!