Thread: Home grown Veggies

Planted a little garden for my 85 year old dad to mess with a while back. He's recovering from some surgery and needed a reason to get off his butt and do something. SO I made some work for him.

Drove down to his place and messed around for a bit. Had supper with the old folks and a nice visit. Took him a 6 pack of Modelo Negro cervesa and a jar of peach jam. He's a happy camper.

We've been picking yellow squash and tomatoes for a while now. Today we picked some corn. This is about a fourth of what we gathered this afternoon. That's a purple bell pepper. Two of the tomatoes are heirloom yellow tomatoes. They are bit less acidic than the red ones. Funny looking but they sure eat good.

I'm planning on starting a small veggie garden for my now five month old daughter. Initially my wife was against it. Here in Thailand it is considered low to grow your own food. Farmers are looked down upon. But when I explained that if my daughter grows it, she will eat it, my wife started thinking about the struggle her parents had in getting her to eat veggies. A thirty year long struggle. So now it looks like when I get around to building the garden I will also have a small veggie patch.

I don't know about Thailand, but here in the US, the food is so contaminated with JUNK that growing your own is healthier and the food tastes like it supposed to taste. Or maybe as how I remember it tasting when I was younger.

GO for it!!

That's some nice-looking produce, Wullie. Makes me want to ressurect my old garden bed!

Nice haul. Wish my garden was doing that well. So far the only things that are growing well are the ghost chiles. Everything else looks anemic at best

i do a (small) garden every yr. i have 120 tomatoe plants, 30 pepper plants 30x15 of sweet corn, an about 50 onions in the garden lol ok maby not small. i am the only 16 yr old in the area that canns and gardens like i do. absolutly love homecanned tomatoe sauce. here in pa they tomatoes go in around june 1st -july 1st and the canning starts early augest thru late augest. some long days in the canning room ahead again.