Daddy’s Garden 2014 Edition

At 89 years young, Daddy has scaled back the size of his garden.  I can remember the times when he would haul tomatoes to the house by the wheelbarrow full.  Wow, was that ever work!  But, the rewards during the winter for sauces and soups were well worth it.  He has a good bit of okra growing now and when we talk in the evenings he will often comment that he put up another bag of okra, cut and ready for the frying pan.  

 
He always grows a stalk or two of cayenne pepper. He likes to have a fresh pod for eating and everyone in our family enjoys a pod cut in the peas while they cook. Yum!

He also has corn growing, but there were so many 4 o’clocks twirling up the stalks, I could not bear a picture!

He also has a lone stalk of bell peppers. I think there were more, but while we all did hospital vigil with Mother, the grass got ahead of him. He has been fairly good at keeping the weeds in the garden beaten back, until this year. To combat the grass he got out the lawn mower and went to work. I know he cut down some stalks of pepper, but they may have been cayenne instead of bell.

Remembering gardens and surveying the current edition are all in my life of country living.