A Garden is For Sharing:
- roweandtunnell
- Aug 15, 2021
- 2 min read
A Garden is For Sharing:
We have officially hit mid-August, the time of the year where we have lots of heat in Oklahoma. The great news is even with the heat, this year we've been getting some rain which is a huge win. For this week, we thought we would share one of our favorite ways to enjoy our garden sharing with you.
Like most gardeners, every year we have an abundance of some vegetables. Last year it was okra (we had gallons and gallons of okra and did everything known to man, froze some, air-fried some, gumbo, pickled, gave to friends, family, and even the owner of the antique shop where we had a booth. This year is the year of carrots and tomatoes. I know a tad odd combination, but it is what it is. So while our creative juices are going, making fresh salsa for Papusas, homemade pasta sauce for our 2 ingredient dough pizza from Weight Watchers, salads and every other use of tomatoes we can find, we still get to give the gift of sharing these with friends and family. This year's varieties include "Evil Olive-a green tomato with my favorite flavor, "Orange Hat", and our winner for our most unique tomato of the year, "Litchi Tomato." The Litchi is from South America, and its leaves remind me of watermelons but produce cherry-sized tomatoes with thorns (yep, you read that right, thorns). While the fruit is delicious, and it's been the talk of all our visitors, we still haven't settled if the thorns make these a garden staple yet.
This year we grew one of my favorite plants from seeds, Datura. This is a species of flowering plant commonly known as thorn apples or jimsonweeds, widely known as Devil's Trumpets. Its double purple ruffled blooms are a hit every year in our garden. When starting seeds way back in early spring, we are never sure exactly how each plant will thrive and what new and exciting plants we will find of this year's garden (this year, we found several, which we will include in our favorite plant posts shortly). So we had an extra 12; what do you do with an additional 12 plants? You share the gift of gardening. Some went to our parents; some went to siblings, some to neighbors, and of course, some to friends. Now we are getting pictures of their flowers and texts and messages of joy. That's the gift of sharing!
Komen