May is the time gardeners plant their gardens. Gardens are wonderful to add healthy vegetables to your diet. Having a huge yard, a few friends got the bright idea to have a community garden. We would all work on it together, weeding, harvesting and canning and reaping the benefits of having fresh veggies. That was the plan.
Fast Forward to August. The friends have either moved away or lost interest and moved on, and since it’s in my yard, well I’m sure you can guess the rest. I have a mutant garden. It’s churning out tomatoes like a factory. Weeds are overrunning everything since I took a weeks vacation at the lake, making my garden dream a nightmare. Luckily I have another week off, and I will use that to can the tomatoes, eggplant, cukcumbers, and whatever else is in there. Gardening can be a wonderful pastime, but realize it does take commitment. What seems fun in May, to plant everything, watch it grow, can become work quick when weeds grow, and harvest time comes. What I thought would be something that would bring my friends and I closer together, ended up being a solo project that was way bigger than I ever would have planted. So next year, I will still have a wonderful garden, but have learned my lesson, communal gardens are great in theory. In the meantime, anyone know how to can eggplant?
