It was fun about a week ago when Miss Molly went into the garden she planted last spring and pulled out a five pound sweet potato. It was a thing of beauty and we all admired it.
This week, I went out again, in the rain, and pulled out enough sweet potatoes to feed the kids today. It was triumph because it was so hot this summer, the other veggies died on the vine no matter how much water we seemed to give them.
We have lots of plants at the “Garden School.” We have two apple trees, a pear tree, a plum tree, a cherry tree and a peach tree. We have a blueberry bush and strawberries, and if people would stop mowing them down, we would have some wonderful black berry bushes.
This past spring, we planted two raised beds of tomatoes and other vegetables like the sweet potatoes, and it was a bust until now.
Growing your own food is an incredible journey, and well worth the time and effort. It’s so much fun to harvest what you grow.
Last week, I bought a book at Amazon called “Urban Homesteading” and gave the book to my wonderful young teacher, Miss Lisa. She lives down town and is planning to grow all kinds of things on her small piece of ground.
Learning to grow food, make food, and preserve food in this era of store boughts is a thing of beauty. So proud of my teachers.
I’ll let you know how the kids liked these home grown very fresh sweet potatoes.