It is done. The garden is empty. This week, I brought in the last of the squash, carrots, parsnips, and potatoes.
Here’s one of the many reasons I love gardening: the freaky vegetables you never see in grocery stores – the ugly tomatoes, the twisted carrots, the stumpy potatoes, the massive squash. I think we actually do ourselves a disservice by culling the freaky fruits and veggies. I love finding these little freaks of nature – it reminds me that nothing, absolutely NOTHING on this green earth is perfect. Everything has its own little flaw. Everything is a beautiful mess.
Super freaks! Super freaks! They’re super freaky.
One of these things is not like the other; one of these things just doesn’t belong . . .
- This squash is nearly ten pounds, and will comfortably feed a family of five.
I am so upset that outdoor gardening season is over. I am currently trying to figure out some magic dust to ripen the last batch of green tomatoes in my garden but they are just laughing at me. Love that carrot!
Ah yes, green tomatoes – there’s always some. I end up having to pick them green because there’s going to be frost. Then I stick them in a cardboard box, cover them with newspaper, and slide them under my bed (to keep them warm). They’ll ripen in a few days, but then they ripen all at once, and you have ten pounds of tomatoes to eat. That’s what happened to us this year. Fortunately, we love spaghetti sauce!
Done! I am so trying this. Everything else I have tried hasn’t worked at all.
I love the carrots. They’re perfect!
They’re so cute – like they’re hugging each other
Will I be eating freaky veggies at Thanksgiving???
The freakiest! (Supplemented with some normal Farmers’ Market ones)
“Everything is a beautiful mess.” AMEN, SISTER!
I love this post. I just pulled some very freaky carrots myself and a turnip that looks like it was trying to become triplets.
Turnip triplets! Love it
To be honest, the more I grow my own food, and shop at the Farmers’ Market, the stranger grocery store produce becomes – it’s a bit creepy how all the fruits and veggies are the same size, and colour, and are shiny and spotless. It’s so . . . sanitized. Food is actually a messy business.
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