When
we made plans this year to help at a summer camp, I purposefully decided to
plant no seeds in my garden plot so there would be nothing to care for while we
were away.
Except
for the roses, most of my garden area is filled with perennial native plants which
only need to be weeded, watered and thinned.
So, except for the combat with bindweed and grasses, it is pretty low
maintenance.
It
was a surprise, therefore, to find squash and tomato plants growing away in the
empty place where my vegetables usually grow.
No one had planted them. The tomatoes
had probably volunteered from those which grew last summer in the same location
and the squash must have grown from seeds which sat in the dirt a whole year
before deciding to grow.
Both
tomatoes and squash need a long, frost-free summer to produce so, unless we
don’t get our usual cold snap in September, the vegetables won’t have time to
mature. Still it does prove how nature
hates a vacuum.
We
also discovered a bountiful crop of black currants waiting to be picked. The currant bushes were a gift from a
thoughtful son-in-law several years ago and this summer the bushes were loaded
with fruit.
We
didn’t have time or really enough of a harvest to make currant jelly so we just
cleaned them (a labor intensive job which can be done while watching a video)
let them dry on a cookie sheet…
…and
then froze them in snack bags to be used later to flavor food like smoothies,
muffins and hot breakfast cereal.
3 comments:
(⌒￢⌒*) big harvest ♪
Lucky you!!
That's a lot of currants!
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