Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- garden:comment:20160815 [2016/09/18 01:54] – created davidbac
+++ garden:comment:20160815 [2026/08/08 04:29] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+===== Plenty: August 2016 =====
+I always plant more than we can use, knowing I can contribute extras to a food bank and that sometimes production is less than expected.
+In previous years I have planted "a little bit of this and a little bit of that." When one variety failed, that was the end of it. When one was super productive, I could give a little bit more to the Food Pantry or the Food Bank.
+This year I planted more of fewer things - lots of melons, summer squash, winter squash, and pumpkins. And all did quite well. I had Farthest North melons filling up buckets in the gaps between distributions at the food banks, and not enough friends and neighbors to absorb the additional produce.
+==== Abundance ====
+I noticed a change of attitude about this abundance of production. In years before I would attempt to save any ailing plant, save slightly damaged fruits and attempt to consume or preserve them.
+==== Devalued ====
+I noticed that I had begun to feel that the vegetables were less valuable - the loss of one to slugs, splitting or disease mattered less. That I couldn't find enough people willing to take the excess became justification for composting anything that wasn't perfect.
+My thinking changed about the value of a vegetables when they became so numerous.