THE GARDEN HARVEST IS IN--A REPORT FOR YEAR 2001
This Is 89 Of About 100 Butternut Squash From This Years Garden
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A Little Over Six Months After First Seed Planted
The Root Cellar Storage and The Canning Shelves Are Not As Full
As Year 2000 But We Will Have Enough To Take Us Through The Winter.

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Squash and Brocolli Produced The Best This Year.
The Drought Cut Into The Late Potato Production
And The Racoons Took Over Half Of Our Sweet Corn.

Worst Tomatoe Crop In A Good Many Years. But We Had A Fair Carry Over.

There is something about gardening that cannot be beat. Sure it is hard work at times but there is such a satisfaction of having that first radish or lettuce in early spring and then the usual abundance harvest in the fall that helps supplement the grocery bill through out the year expecially during the cold winter months. Hot mashed potatoes, delicious brocolli and cheese soup. squash, beets, beans, and so it goes.

A TWO HEADED BEET. 1st I HAVE EVER SEEN

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Yes, I have Seen Beets That Have Grown Together
And Were Like Siamees Twins
But Never One Beet With Two Crowns or Heads

I have had a garden every year since our marriage, 50 years ago and although I have cut back a bit since the family has grown and gone their own way I still get the urge when warm weather comes and the smell of spring is in the air to crank up that rototiller and go to planting.

In all of our fifty years of married life, I have had bood and bad gardens, but I have never had it so bad that I did not harvest some produce. Garden is for me a way to relax during my working days, whether coming home from the photo studio or the real estate business, it was a chance to plant, weed or harvest. Most of the time with song birds filling the air with their songs, squirrls chattering in the trees and deer teasing as they nibble on pea or been plants-looking at me in their own mischievious way. So they ate a few things now and then. I try to plant enough so that I can share a bit with them. I do think the Racoons overdid it this year however.

GROWING GLADIOLIAS HAS NOW SUPPLEMENTED IN PART MY
Vegetable Garden, Giving Us Flowes On The Table From Mid June Until Mid Oct.

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Beside vegetable gardening I have now gone into a bit of flower gardening,
mostly in the area of Gladiolias.
Will close with that. Above is a bouget from my garden this year.