Love this time of year / Farm Markets

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Originally Posted by Downthestretch55

Well,
I can't say I'm hooked on farmers markets because once the garden starts coming, it makes so much good food that I can't keep up with it.
I give away more food than I can possibly eat.
My garden is filled with compost. The plants love it. And, did you know that insects don't attack healthy plants?
Anyway, I've been getting onions since March, hold over carrots too.
Now the lettuce is just so good. The basis for so many salads. Nothing like you can buy at a store.
New potatoes, baby stringbeans, radishes...I could go on and on.
Once you have a vegetable garden, you'll never be the same.
Plant some herbs too cause nothing beats fresh cilantro or basil when you're cooking.
Now, if the danged rain would stop so I could go out and harvest, things would be fine.
Here in NY, the farmers are taking a hit. Some of the best hay is grown here, but if it rains on it after it's down, it's ruined.
A few sunny days in a row would be nice.

Zuchinnis or cukes anyone??? Coming out faster than Ghostzapper from the gate.

Among the things I miss most having moved from up north to So Florida is having a modest garden. Tomato(e?)s, cukes, herbs, nothing much but I do miss it. Down here, it's very hard (at least for me) to get a garden growing. Winter = No Rain at all. Summer = Nothing but rain. And whike I know bugs won't go after healthy plants and while we exterminate regularly, I still kill a couple of flying or crawling creatures half the size of my fist a week.