garden laughs: October 2007 Archives

Luke and I feasted on the first ripe persimmon from the tree

I read a blog yesterday that talked about how kids love homegrown veggies. It talked about a study that showed the benefits of homegrown:

"The study found that preschool kids served homegrown fruits and vegetables were nearly twice as likely to eat five servings per day than those who rarely or never had homegrown produce."

I can testify to the idea that kids love food out of the garden. My Luke makes a beeline to the tomatoes EVERY TIME we're outside. And it's a good thing I'm there to watch, because he'd eat the green tomatoes if I let him (of course, I don't).

He also loves fruit, and when I noticed this weekend that one of the persimmons on the tree was finally ripe, I got out a knife and plucked it off the branch. He had his hand out sooner than I could cut him a piece off the fruit.

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This morning I woke up around 4 a.m. to the sound of pecans pelting my roof. I can hear them especially well in my bedroom -- which is right underneath the pecan tree -- because it has a flat roof. The wind was whipping the tree around good and sending those pecans flying.
It sounded like a bunch of kids were throwing hundreds of snowballs at my house. (I grew up in Virginia, and we had snow days most winters.)
I listened for a while and eventually fell back to sleep, until the rain started. My husband and I jumped out of bed, suddenly remembering the multitude of things we had left outside that would almost certainly already be soaked.
Yep, Luke's stroller and wagon were really wet -- but they'll dry.
Later that morning, when I finally left for work, I noticed a white cylinder right in front of someone's SUV parked down the block.
"Wow, that's really weird -- and really familiar... oh my gosh!" I thought to myself.

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My pecan tree is stuffed -- STUFFED, I tell you -- with nuts, and the first ones that are ready to eat are just beginning to fall.
Luke and I spent half an hour yesterday running around the back and side yards looking for nuts and stuffing them into a brown paper bag. Well, I was actually the only one putting them in the bag. My 14 month-old thought it would be way more fun to take them out of the bag and give them to Goose -- one of our family dogs -- who also loves pecans.

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