Garden Entertainment

I really love to garden. What could be more enjoyable than producing a good part of ones food, right here next to the house. Tons of tomatoes, peppers of interesting temperament, corn of many colors and potatoes in significant tonnage. For the most part it is a quiet reward, a feeling of knowing that we just might be able to feed ourselves, maybe not much beyond the level of a starving Irishman of 1830 but still the rutabagas and other root crops could carry us if the blight and the English do not interfere---or Glen Beck and the Brown Shirts.

We have been rewarded this year with a proud garden and the freezer full of venison, caribou, local fish and chickens. It is like our lives are complete and we are sustainable.

But the garden has other benefits that sometimes go unnoticed. While the quiet rewards are comforting, we need entertainment if not intellectual stimulus, an up-lifting experience to move us to new levels of life's pleasure. That is where unusual, dynamic produce comes in.

I know many are saying, "My God, they found a Jesus potato!" Yes, that would be a potato of a life time and a divine inspiration. But no, we found a divine moose potato. Anyone can plainly see this is some sort of profound representation that will bring many hours of pleasure and possibly millions on Ebay. I know it has a bit of a goiter, but hey.

It doesn't end there. It seems the garden holds other objects of entertainment. Yes, it takes a little imagination and a mind that has to much time on its neurons. Check out this Tomato. Believe me there are still more but my commitment to family values prohibits me from showing those devilish items (or the sexy ones) . Oh, I love the garden.