A time to sow and a time to harvest!!!!

It is very exciting!!!!  Our garden is now ready to harvest some of the veggies!!!  We have found a total of 12 green beans from the seeds Mary Ann gave me.  Tonight we are having a guest for dinner and will share the beans.  Also, one of the wing beans is ready.....so I have that one and we will share it.  I need to look up on the internet on how to cook it so it is tasty.

Wing bean

The corn is ready to be harvested and we are sharing 1/2 with the gardener without whom we would not have a garden.  He seems to love working in the soil and is always saying how sad he is that the soil is so poor but you know, we are getting some vegetables and this is a first for me.  So I am just thankful that these are growing as much as they are.

The Spinach is also ready to harvest......a leaf at a time, he says.  So tomorrow we will have a spinach salad to enjoy the fresh wonderful healthy food.

We also have growing parsley, bell peppers, papaya, watermelon (6 small fruit right now), pumpkin, okra, two fig trees, one avocado tree that will produce fruit when we are long gone, lettuce was added today as well as basil and mint.  Quite a wonderful assortment.  Here are some photos.

Okra

Fig Tree

Watermelon

There is one thing growing in the garden and we don't know what it is.  Can anyone help me?

Squash?  Eggplant?  Looks like a mango to me but maybe the leaves will help someone who knows gardening.

One last thing about food....today.....and just to let you know....the main conversations when we get together are about two things......food and visas......the two main issues here.  Anyway, on the way to the school yesterday we went by a "meat shop"......this is not where we buy meat....but I thought it was so interesting and so typical of Soyo.....note the goat head on the table and the man was skinning the carcass as we drove by.....fresh meat for sure.

I believe it is clear how thankful I am for the blessing of a garden that is actually producing food. The children's song....."Count your blessings name them one by one....Count your blessings see what God has done"....is so real as I look daily at the changes in the garden.  The gardener plants and waters but God is the one that makes things grow in this sandy soil.  Altho none are producing large amounts except the corn, we still can share with the others here and brighten their day too.