The Fun Begins When You Harvest!

You grow vegetables, so go forth and cheerfully pick, pluck, pull, dig, snip, harvest, and gather your bounty. You also know how to describe what you are doing in your garden adequately.

Today, I want to discuss our experience harvesting vegetables from our garden.

Having a vegetable garden has been a dream come true for me ever since. My father planted many vegetables, so I was happy to see them when I finally visited our farm.

I find it exciting to be surrounded by veggies.

Time to start harvesting! 

When you want the plants to bear fruit and grow more prominent, it cannot be easy, but eventually, the effort will pay off.

When you harvest is the best time!

Vegetable harvesting from your garden can be a happy and fulfilling endeavor. Scooping fresh, tasty veggies will satisfy your palate and allow you to spend valuable time with loved ones. It's an excellent way to learn about nature, gardening, and a balanced diet.

Growing vegetables is a great way to expand your horizons and acquire new abilities. You can learn how to recognize vegetables, take good care of them, harvest them when and how to store them and prepare them for eating. It's a fantastic method to cut costs on groceries as well.

On the farm, my niece and I harvested some vegetables.

We harvested the green chilies first. Most of these chili plants are growing better and producing much fruit, which makes me very happy. As I remove the chilies from the plant, I hear a sound that makes me happy.

I can do a lot with these chilies and combine them with some of my favorite foods, like sinigang and dinuguan, which excites me. I can also make one of our favorite snacks, dynamite lumpia.

My all-time favorite eggplant is the one we harvested after that. We have this kind of eggplant, which I love because I can use it in so many recipes. Along with ensaladang talong, I can make tortang talong and fried eggplant.

Then we move on to okra, also known as lady fingers, another of my favorite vegetables. I especially like it when I boil it in water and add it to pinakbet, another of my favorite vegetable dishes.

My desire fortinolang manok was piqued when I saw the papaya tree covered in many fruits.

Suddenly, we also noticed sitaw, which is a long bean variety.

I usually cook these long beans for dinengdeng, another vegetable recipe for Filipinos, especially during the fresh harvest. It was so sweet, and I loved it.

We also have some native small ampalaya or bitter guards, my father's favorite, mainly when you boil them with water.

Then we also have some green leaves, which are my favorites as a vegetarian, the kamote tops, and kangkong tops, which are good when you boil them in water and dip them with bagoong paste with calamansi and chilies. You can also add it with sinigang dishes.

Every time I hear the sound of me harvesting vegetables from the plant, I am overjoyed. It fills my heart with joy and happiness and is incredibly satisfying.

We are fortunate to have this type of vegetable farm; in addition to providing me with wholesome, fresh food, it was a wonderful experience that improved my mental, physical, and emotional well-being. It has advantages that make me feel good.

*These are some benefits of growing vegetables on the farm, and I am grateful for this encounter. Despite its simplicity, it is a realization of a dream. *