This Week I Have Learned.....

• Place markers, draw maps, or somehow create a reference of where I plant things in the garden. I WILL not remember, and playing “name that vegetable” doesn’t always work. What I might be carefully tending as a potential vegetable might turn out to be a vicious weed that is really hard to kill by the time I figure it out.

• Knowing your cats may be using the garden as a giant litterbox makes you look at root vegetables a little differently.

• I used to feel a bit sorry for the birds the cats killed. Then they started eating all the strawberries

• Kale and beets look pretty similar on the seed packets, but the ones that get the big bulb at the bottom are the beets.

• Tomatoes will grow anywhere except where you actually planted them.

• I never thought I’d say this, but I really miss canned cream of mushroom soup

• Figuring out when icicle radishes are ready to pick is complete guesswork

• Community property in marriage stops somewhere short of the pea pods

• Trying to grow things naturally & without chemicals is going to involve a lot of bugs and you’re going to have to learn to share with them.

• The seventh batch of cherry jam doesn’t taste as good as the first

• The seventh batch of cherry jam is still pretty good.

• It may not be wise to read the Little House book series to young, impressionable children. They may grow up to drag their husbands through crazy food experiments.