During college, my roommate and I would joke about a barefoot revolution. It’s not that we didn’t appreciate cute shoes. Or that we wanted to start any foot-borne public health epidemics. We just preferred to be barefooted. The moment I’m home (or in the car) I kick off my shoes. The summer makes this really simple because of sandals. Now that we have our own garden, this barefoot revolution is getting to be tricky. I really hate stopping to put shoes on before I enter the garden. But the manure and other composty goodness in our soil is so squishy. And mixed with our clay-like soil it becomes an impenetrable sludge that is even difficult for my hose to spray off. So, I confess, that I have begun wearing sandals in the garden. It is really difficult to remember this. Seriously hard.
Here are some pictures featuring our homegrown produce. Today we even enjoyed fresh rainbow chard with our baked potatoes.
Your garden is doing much better than mine. I was really hoping to impress marc while he was gone but it’s a struggle. Mary told me you planted 42 tomato plants! We did twenty one year and I think I canned just about anything that required tomotoes! Good luck. You definitely won’t have a shortage. Anyway, nice job with it all. I am definitely impressed!
Revolution!!
This is the first pregnancy I’ve had where my feetsies and hands have swollen up and so the revolution has been especially pertinent to me this summer. We cut up and ate our first squash and tomatoes yesterday! Chloe liked the tomatoes and Linus liked the squash. We’re going to have cucumbers growing out our ears this year too. PS- do you have any interest in crabapple jelly? We have a crabapple tree out front whose branches are very burdoned with some heavy, large crabapples (seriously, this tree makes huge ones, like the size of large olives). If you’re interested you can bring some buckets for harvesting when you come out! However, the ripe ones tend to get worms in them, so we’ll see if any are good this year…just a thought! Love you!!