$4 Garden

Believe it or not I bought the plants for our garden back in May from Marc's and we are still reaping the rewards.  I purchased two pepper plants, a cantaloupe plant, and a regular tomato plant were all just a dollar each!  So my total was $4. Wow! I didn't buy any soil or MiracleGro, so the $4 was really $4. A true savings. I even had two "volunteer" cherry tomato plants show up. All the more for the bounty. 

What we yielded (as of yet... but the harvest continues):

2 Cantaloupes

170 cherry tomatoes

5 green peppers

12 regular tomatoes

And what we've made: 

Salsa (2 batches)

Guacamole (2 batches)

Spicy tomato pasta sauce

Pasta Primavera

Salad fixings

Cantaloupe Smoothies

Fruit Salad

Cantaloupe with yogurt

Salsa!! 

Cantaloupe smoothie. Mmmm. 

Jesus tells of the parable of the farmer... of which, I am not.  "And still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop -- a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."   Matthew 13:3-9

Greenthumb Adventure Tip: Mom was right. Cantaloupe takes over the garden, especially a small garden! I suspect cucumbers do the same thing.