Mom and Dad's Awesome Garden

What the heck? My mom started her garden about a month after me and when I was recently at their house I couldn't help but notice that the parents garden is pretty much triple the size of my meager little plot. I guess sometimes it pays to buy your plants already started and to use fertilizer? Suppose that's what I get for going the el natural organic route huh? But don't get me wrong, my little plot is finally beginning to show some signs of fruit. Its just everything is so small and feeble looking. I don't think my spot gets enough light and I guess I should have foreseen that. But when I decided on the location of my plot back in early March there were no leaves on the trees so I foolishly thought the location I chose would be decent. Plus I remember the ma inlaw having a pretty successful garden in the same spot a few years ago. Anyway my point here is that I'm totally jealous of my parents awesome garden. I mean come on look at this monster!!

My dad was proudly showing me his veggies, but its all good. I'm super proud of my not so green thumbed parentals.

And they have some pretty diesel herbage going on too. I mean who the heck needs this much basil?

Here's the pumpkin I bought them for Mother's Day a month and a half ago. I guess come October I can just go pumpkin picking at my parents garden ya think?

And at this rate their gonna have tomatoes ready in a few weeks. My meager tomato plants are totally lame. The only one that has remote potential is one that my mom donated to me from her garden on steroids a few weeks ago. Oh well what can I say? I'm totally proud of them. This is only their second year attempting this whole grow your own food thing and I've got to give them props for digging up a huge chunk of their "beloved" back yard and going fer it! I mean it can be a real crap shoot growing your own food. And I'm happy that they are having so much success. I hope that next year they have an even more bountiful crop. And not to be totally ungrateful, but I know that come another month from now I'll be benefiting from this garden when they have more veggies then they know what to do with. This whole garden adventure is a serious learning experience for me. I have read and studied so much and next season when I am settled into my own backyard I hope that I will have more success.

But at any rate its always awesome to stop by my parents house and see the lil sis and the dopey dog. Between them and my parents theres never a dull moment.

While I was there, lil sis was prepping some apps for a get together with her inlaws and the dog was super excited about that. Not that he really likes veggies, but any time your preparing something he's extremely interested. And my dad always buys awesome beer for me! He sure knows how much I love my skiing!!Man my parents rock. Not too mention it was a super tasty beer! And Mad River Glen is only one of three remaining resorts that are skier only. At any rate I took photos of my scrawny garden and I'll try to get around to posting them in the next few days. Anyway in the words of the great song writer Eric Clapton "Let it Grow".