Friday is my last day on the spending ban, so technically if I stayed up until 12:01 AM on Saturday, I could start online shopping then......A very worthy thought and well worth considering.....
We're finally getting lots of tomatoes!!!! Canning attempts will be posted for your amusement in about 2-3 weeks. Right now they're still enough of a novelty that we're pretty much eating all of them as they ripen. The cucumbers have far outstripped us and we're giving full sack loads to anyone who comes over--with or without their permission. If we have to, one of us distracts guests with a garden tour while the other one breaks into their car and plants a few sacks of cucumbers. They drive away grateful that we didn't plant zucchini....
Admittedly, we might be taking the gardening thing a bit too far. Tonight Andy actually said, "Today there was steam coming out of the compost bin--that's really exciting."
Obviously, we need to get out more.
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I see no reason why one would object to guerrilla acts of garden-vegetable generosity. I'd be delighted to receive the bounty of green-thumbed friends or acquaintances, perhaps even some strangers.
Seriously, though, if you need to offload some of the stuff, there must be a local fresh food bank operation that would be happy to take some produce off your hands.
LOL!!! I still remember the summer my parents left me to garden-sit during their two week vacation in Canada (I was home from college for the summer). "If you get enough cucumbers," my mom said, "make some pickles".
When she called a week later, I said plaintively, "Mom, we have twenty-six quarts of pickles. Can I start giving cucumbers away now?" (She said 'yes!'!)
Want a pickle recipe? I made some rather nice bread-and-butter pickles from some cukes I found in my car last summer. (Just kidding! They were given to me by a co-worker! He even asked first!...of course I do habitually lock the car....)
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