August 18, 2011. Western Head, N.S. The Garden.

Tonight we will eat Swiss chard, yellow beans and turnip, all from the garden.   For lunch we ate radishes from the garden.  This is the time of year when we  eat out of the garden.  Already we have eaten squash and onions.   Rita and Ken went rooting around the garden and came back to the house with their buckets full of produce.   They even came back with two tomatoes.

It is old yet new to go to the garden and being the food directly to the table.   Ken and Vinal have worked hard and now we are reaping the benefit of their hard work.  Even the potatoes taste better when eaten the same day they are dug.   Ken won't harvest the vegetables until just before they are cooked.  He thinks they taste better that way.   As we speak, Rita is cutting the Swiss chard for dinner.

We are so surprised to have such a good garden close to the shore.  The garden is in an area protected on four sides, so when the sun shines,  the plants are hot but without much wind, so the vegetables flourish.  We are very fortunate to have a good garden right in our back yard.