Compassion Garden 2006

This year we had the BEST tomatoes ever! The garden produced well and is still producing tomatoes and green peppers. We grew yellow cherry tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes, pineapple tomatoes, and early girls. I grew roma tomatoes in the back yard for salsa and spaghetti sauces and to dehydrate for black bean soup. The jalapeno peppers did not produce as well as I expected and I’m looking for people who have an excess to make jelly. The green peppers and cucumbers both did extremely well and I made over 4 gallons of bread and butter pickles and 3 gallons of dill pickle chips in addition to moving bowls and bowls of fresh cucumbers through the table at the meetinghouse (above). Today I hope to finish up some of the cucumbers to make gazpacho. Thus far the garden has raised over $250 to pay the school fees of a Compassion girl in Uganda. We still have more Sundays of produce to put out on the table in addition to cans of tomatoes that were canned by Mary and Bettye. All in all, a good use of a strip of land between two parking lots.