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RE: A look at our canning so far this year and todays harvest.
I hear you on the grim reapers! My youngest toddler (14 months) keeps picking the tiny green tomatoes while I'm working in the garden...grrrrrr. She sees the bigger girls getting to pick the beans and cucumbers and doesn't wait for me to tell her what to pick before she's off to harvest whatever she finds. Yikes.
I planted a patch of cherry tomato plants and let them go wild - the kids think they aren't supposed to pick them, so they do...a lot.😂 Little do they know it's a decoy! It can be havoc in the garden, so 'sacrificial planting' is a smart move..haha. It's fun though, isn't it @lturner38 ? Seeing them thrive and learn how our labor generates the food we eat is something beautiful. Worth all the cleanup and repair that our little demolition experts create.😎
It's definitely fun to have them working with me, but I have to admit the picking of the baby tomatoes is definitely exasperating. I had a grape tomato that succumbed to early blight so my "kid planting" failed on me for once. Now I have the littlest one occupied by carrying cucumbers for me a lot (just have to recognize she will occasionally take a bite out of one).
Haha I know it's a challenge @lturner! Their curiousity takes over! My 2 year old daughter LOVES peppers. We picked a bunch and brought them in - green bell peppers, banana peppers, cubanelles - by the time I unloaded and turned around she had eaten a whole entire half of a giant bell! Seeds were littered across a blanket in the living room.😆😂 I had to laugh and remind myself how lucky I am that she willingly eats veggies..haha they sure keep things exciting!
Oh goodness - that is pretty funny! At least mine who's picking the green tomatoes actually eats them, unlike the squirrels who like to steal fruit, take a bite, and leave it lying on the ground.