I went out into the garden this morning to see the first tomatoes ready for picking!!!! I am going to have to ask Ella to sew me one of those adorable harvesting aprons that homesteaders wear to carry in their eggs & such in!!

The red ones are Cherry Tomatoes.

The orange ones are Sun Gold Cherry Tomatoes.

It doesn’t look like a lot yet, but I’m still so excited about them! I’m also excited about how many green ones of different varieties there still are growing! The plants are HUGE now!

I really love how much of a sense of gratitude comes from gardening. There is something so magical about it! I find myself just staring at it all, taking everything in: the watermelons we grew from seed, the tomatoes that are towering over the younger kids, our Veggie scraps we propagated & regrew from our kitchen, the fruit trees that will provide not only food but many memories for my children, all of the edible plant starts I accumulated for free from friends & other kind gardeners that have really filled up my beds this year (that is a huge blessing), the pumpkin patch that is growing up the walls of our greenhouse making it feel like a fairy tale, the flower gardens in the front yard filled with busy pollinators & beautiful smells. Nothing compares to that first harvest, and getting to bring something in to eat that YOU grew – it’s so rewarding.

Until next time ♡ Mama Morozov