That thing I am holding there is a zucchini, probably the biggest I have grown but most of them get larger than anything you can ever buy in a store. I don't think that the picture really does it justice, it is a beauty to behold. It was about 15 inches long and weighed in at 3.25 lbs. They come out of the grow box garden we have at my parents house. There were some radishes that were 4" in diameter that were produced in there but the pictures are on a different camera, I will put those up later. So far we have grown carrots, cilantro, three types of bell peppers, green onions, bulb onions, tomatillos, two kinds of lettuce, broccoli, and cauliflower. The garden is only 5' by 7' but it produces way more than we can eat because of the special soil and fertilizers. Kathy takes zucchini to work and has a raffle to give it away. We try to give away as much as we can but a lot of it ends up being fed to Shaka ( the labrador who loves carrots and anything that falls off the fruit trees), and to the rabbits next door.
Outside of the garden we have some watermelons, zucchini, berries, and pumpkins; but the garden produces the best fruits. For any gardeners out there, you should get any of the Mittleider Method books and give it a try. You wouldn't believe what you can grow out of a frame filled with sand and sawdust.
Update: Right after this post I pulled out a 4 lb 9oz zucchini, and within a week my personal best is now 5 lbs 5 oz, which is coincidentally what I weighed when I was born.
3 comments:
That's crazy, I wish we could grow a garden right now. Especially with fruit. Steve and I need to start eating our fruits and veggies more often. A garden would be beneficial but we don't have a place to put it. Those zucchinis are huge.
Holy veggies!:) Eating one of those a day would be like 5 vegetable servings! Honestly! Thata awesome! Is Levi pumping steroids into those things? Thats hilarious!
P.S. Looks like your SD trip was fantastic! Seeing your pics made me miss home! Danny and I hope you ate enough Mexican food for us! :) Thats all we eat when we visit my family cause it sure beats the heck out of Utah's! Although, I think Arizona has good Mexican food too! We miss you guys!
That garden is awesome! we were thinking a garden would be soo nice to have.. so maybe we'll do that! youll have to talk to steve bout it.. so thanks for getting me blogging kathy! so fun...way too addicting :) i even got my dad blogging and hes on here way too much :)
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