One of my biggest joys every day is going outside and seeing what I need to harvest. I’ve been getting a little each and every day and everything is tasting yummy. Mostly figs and banana peppers right now, but soon I will have tons of tomatoes. (I also have a ton of basil, so if you are in the area and need fresh basil, come on by) The garden is providing us with a decent amount of our fresh fruits and veggies and I cannot wait to expand the garden so it can hopefully provide almost all of them.
Gardening websites can make you think you need to spend a lot of money on tools and gadgets to make the job easier. Last week I saw this basket and thought that would be nice for picking my fruits and veggies, and then I saw the price, $35.00! There was no way I was going to pay that much for a basket. I decided I would look at Goodwill over the weekend and found two different baskets and spent a whopping $1.98. (One is pictured above with this morning’s harvest in it.) Now I can harvest keeping both hands free and not dropping stuff, which to Tank means that one is his! By the way he doesn’t eat them, just carries them around.