About 22 post back (232) I did a story about a raised garden that Susan and I built this spring. As you can see by the pic taken yesterday it has been a great growing year in Indiana this year. And it is amazing just how much food one can get from a small garden like this one. It is a circle maybe 16 feet in diameter is all. But I think putting it close to the house is key, where it will not be forgotten about and where it will be noticed. Noticed by you and your friends, I think keeps one on their toes both keeping it weeded and watered if need be. Has not taken a lot of water this year, maybe a half dozen times I watered it a bit, but the rains have come all summer pretty much an average of maybe an inch a week. That produces crops for sure, both gardens and corn and beans in the large fields across the midwest.
But as you can see, the "busy" garden is producing lots of red potatoes, tomatoes, squash, green beans, cantalope, onions, peppers, okra, strawberries and it not only looks good it even taste good too....Right now the okra is really coming on strong as well as the potatoes and tomatoes...The okra is one of my favorites and I have been successful in getting others to try it and most like it or at least say they do. I grill a lot this time of year and I just put whole okra maybe 2 to 3 inches long right on top of the meat or what ever I have on the grill and kind of steam them. Add salt before eating and they are delicious. The tall plants to the right side picture here is the okra. It just keeps growing kind of like and Oak tree sending out branches and blooming its head off every day...Nice yellow blooms that soon turn into these elongated vegetable, that can be cooked many ways or even eaten raw right in the garden which I have done on occasion. Another favorite way of getting this okra down the hatch into the tum tum is to slice it cross section about a quarter inch thick and then fry it in a skillet...Probably with olive oil or with bacon grease if you want to mix a little bacon in it...or with fried potatoes also goes well..It is a kind of southern veggie but one that grows on you if you get exposed to it....
So that's about it for today, just wanted to show off my good looking veggies, by the way we had some friends over last evening and actually ate most of this stuff and then afterward ask ourselves why we had tummy aches? It's summer time, that's why and besides people may be starving in China...
But maybe not anymore since most of what we buy comes from there, they probably are eating a lot better. We have all the low cost "stuff" we need and our unemployment numbers continue to rise each year...someday we will figure this all out I hope.
Scan down the right side pictures here to (232) and take a look at what it was just a few weeks ago....God has been good to Indiana again....
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