Make The Most From Your Vegetable Garden
By B. Ellis, Fri Dec 9th
Make the Most from Your Vegetable Garden
All your hard work has paid off, and now you are presented witha dilemma, too many vegetables! After sharing your wealth withfriends, family, co-workers, neighbors and anyone that happensto come to visit, there are alternative options of what you cando with your extensive supply of tomatoes, zucchini and otherbountiful crops that will bring great joy to the communityaround you.
There are many different ways to approach this, the easiestwould be to look up in your local phone book for organizationsthat you could donate your vegetables to. A good place to startwould be food banks, women’s shelters and half-way houses. Don’tbe discouraged if at first you are turned down, some communityresources have to follow guidelines that will not allow them toaccept fresh fruit or vegetables. You can also look up on theinternet for locations near you that would find great joy inbeing the recipient of your sharing.
Another great idea is to do a “vegetable exchange” with othergardeners, you neighbor could have a bumper crop of beans orcorn and not a great harvest on tomatoes, exchanging them willgive you the best of both vegetables! The only thing of cautionhere is that it’s a good idea to exchange with people that havethe same basic gardening ethics, if you grow organic vegetablesthen you may not want to exchange with someone else that prefersto use chemicals or pesticides in their garden.
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