I spent a good portion of today weeding in the garden. My parents kindly share their garden with us, and it's been so helpful! When everyone pitches in with the tilling, planting, weeding, harvesting, and preserving, the load is so much lighter.

We've been enjoying many meals of fresh green beans, yellow squash, and tomatoes. Last week, I made Tomato Cucumber Salad with vegetables from the garden. It's a fun, seasonal sort of salad that I enjoy about once a year. :)

Today I brought home a big box of onions that had been dug several weeks ago and had been drying. It's amazing how many onions a person can grow from a dollar's worth of onion starts. :)

The tomatoes are starting to really produce well, and next week I should be able to make some pizza sauce. (Pizza sauce takes a lot of tomatoes!) My mom has already canned some tomato foods, including salsa. :)

We spotted some tomato hornworms in the garden, and could tell that the ones with the white wasp larve on them were wilting and dying. Yehoshua and Eliyahu got to see corn being picked and husked, and my dad dug up some potatoes to show them where potatoes come from. (Some of the potatoes are ready to be dug, but most aren't ready quite yet.)

It was a full day, but the weather wasn't too hot, and it's nice to see the plants get weeded. I weeded strawberries, tomatoes, and potatoes today -- but forgot to take my camera with me. Maybe eventually I'll remember to take the camera so I can share pictures of bits of the garden here. :)