The garden has been a great pleasure this growing season. Each evening we get to look at our dinner plates and marvel at the abundance that comes from the miracle that is our vegetable garden. Small seeds into moist soil in the Spring, add water and watch it happen. There is a bit more to it than that. The planting, weeding, watering and weeding and weeding and more weeding, but the result is truly gratifying. We have had some great garden mentors over the years, good neighbors and friends, a green thumbed father-in-law and his son, countless little tips and experiments that slowly build good soil and yearly garden surprises. Visitors often suggest how much money we must be saving by not having to shop for vegetables. Possibly, though we have never done the math. We do it because there is nothing quite like the flavors that come from a sun ripened, home grown tomato, or a cob of corn picked only minutes before being slipped into boiling water on the stove or even the comfort food of winter potatoes mashed into a traditional Dutch stamppot. The miracles get to be enjoyed almost year-round.
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