Bountiful harvest

I'm starting to think that I should have chosen gardening as my special activity. Meet my garden; that is a 7 ft mammoth sunflower in the middle. Also in the garden zucchini, okra, nasturtiums, pole beans, various herbs, etc. All kinds of goodies.


Not bad, not bad. Now that I've figured out how to keep the deer out, it's thriving. Check out this morning's harvest. I'm actually quite proud of it. The zucchini was grown organically; I sprayed the okra once when it was not producing, just to give it a break from predation. I guess it liked that b/c now it's starting to produce like crazy. I LOVE fried okra, but must start thinking of other creative ways to cook okra.


SO MUCH ZUCCHINI!! I had zucchini in eggs and hashbrowns for breakfast, extra zucchini in some leftover shrimp/veggie mozzarella pasta for lunch, and tonight, fish tacos with shredded zucchini, which I must say is surprisingly yummy! Just to give y'all some perspective, the zucchini at the top is 4.5 lbs, really....see proof below.


All told, I harvested 10 lbs of zucchini this morning. Add that to the 5 lbs already in my fridge...I wonder if I can pack 15 lbs of zucchini into my body. Luckily, a friend took the massive 4.5 lber off my hands to make a mock apple pie. Hopefully, she'll get that made before Tuesday. :) You'd be surprised how easy it is to make zucchini taste like apples...fresh out of the oven zucchini pie, add a little vanilla ice cream. Summertime heaven. And, in summertime spirit, I will be headed to the springs tomorrow for some sun and swimming. Can't wait to soak my body in the cold spring waters....