Reply #4: We're going to try it this year and see how we like it. [View All]

[csziggy]

I am not sure if we can get all the veggies we like this way - here in the South many of the things we like will not grow over the summer or at all. Some can grow in the winter, but here we are far enough north that we get hard freezes which can kill winter crops.

The other difficulty is cleaning and processing the fresh veggies. The greens had been washed but still had a lot of dirt on them. I washed them at least four times and still had a little grittiness. I go in for my shoulder surgery in a few weeks so there may be a while that I cannot do the washing, processing and cooking. As it is, I had to space it over two days - first washings yesterday, then more washing, chopping and cooking today.

That is one reason I have been buying supermarket and frozen veggies - bad shoulders, bad knees, bad back and injuries over the years have made it hard sometimes to deal with the extra work for the fresh from farm stuff. But I really want to support the local farmers and they need the compost so it is win-win for all of us if this can work!