Checking the Harvest
Greetings to all.
Xavier braved the unruly sunflowers standing as sentinels around his garden to check on his pumpkins.
There are so many sunflowers this year thanks to the birds dropping too many seeds from last year's crop. We did not pull enough of them up when they started popping up late spring.
Xavier's garden this year contains two kind of pumpkin, Yukon Gold potatoes (still from the batch Grandpa Danny gave him for his birthday several years ago), a tomato plant seeded from last season and a watermelon vine.
To Xavier's delight, while back checking on the biggest of the pumpkins, he found his tomato plant in need of some help.
Off to the back yard he ran to get help harvesting his tomato crop.
To his aid, the Tonka dump truck Grandma Penny sent him for Christmas many years back and a shovel. The dump truck has assisted on many, many yard projects over the years, so no surprise it showed up for the tomato harvest of 2021.
I'm not sure what the shovel got used for; I think Xavier brought it out, but did not need it.
The dump truck helped deliver several firm and tasty tomatoes. Xavier drove them to the porch, then carried them into the house. We had them for dinner tonight.
Rebecca, who has very particular notions about what kind of tomatoes to grow, gave favorable reviews as well. We wished we had a few more plants to harvest from.