The End of the Garden

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Josh posing as a scarecrow in the garden.
Our gardening days have come to an end and the little garden plot has been laid to rest. For this year anyway. It has been fun. We didn't plant tomatoes this year, and instead enjoyed broccoli, carrots, peas, beans, onion and corn plants. The broccoli was a new experience. It grew, the flowers appeared, and we hacked off the stalk and ate it cooked with cheese melted on top. Good stuff. The peas and beans grew well and plentiful, and we enjoyed several meals with them both cooked and raw. The onion was one that started sprouting in the fridge, and was transplanted to the garden, where it proceeded to grow tall... I'm not sure how new onions are supposed to grow though. I imagine it is like other bulbs that should be planted in fall... but when do you harvest bulbs? I don't know. We enjoyed the plants, anyway. The corn was a plant that Josh brought home from school last Spring. It took a while to get going, but eventually the ears emerged and grew. We kept hoping that they would grow larger... but before we knew it they had been on the stalk too long, and were withered and brown. Oh well.  Then there were the carrots. We planted a lot of them, and the majority were harvested today. The largest are about 4 1/2 inches long and 2 1/2 inches in diameter. Now I'll have to figure out what to do with so many of them!
All the carrots harvested today

 As I said, it has been fun, but as the weather starts to cool, the time of the garden has passed. After General Conference this afternoon, Steven went out, harvested the carrots, and dug the remaining plants under. May they decompose, return their nutrients to the soil and produce a bountiful harvest again next year.





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