{"id":116,"date":"2014-04-19T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2014\/04\/quality-or-quantity-in-the-vegetable-garden.html"},"modified":"2015-11-05T16:34:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T16:34:45","slug":"quality-or-quantity-in-the-vegetable-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2014\/04\/quality-or-quantity-in-the-vegetable-garden.html","title":{"rendered":"Quality or Quantity in the Vegetable Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today’s letter in the blogging A to Z Challenge is Q, and I started thinking about two “q” words near and dear to my heart: quality, and quantity.<\/center>

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How about both?<\/center>
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The great thing about growing a home vegetable garden is that you really can have it both ways. I grow a huge quantity of vegetables. Some do better than others; one year, we might have a bumper crop of potatoes, lettuce, peppers and so on. Another year, the pepper crop is just so-so but the tomatoes are wonderful. Some years the quantity is so great I’m canning, freezing and giving away vegetable as fast as I can pick it. \u00a0<\/center>
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Most years, I’m savoring the quality.<\/center>
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Take this year’s asparagus crop, for instance. Six spears picked earlier this week. More to be picked today for tomorrow’s Easter dinner.<\/center>
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<\/center>\u00a0The quantity is terrible, but the quality? Priceless.<\/p>\n

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And how about apples? Last year, we picked some apples from our trees – the first time ever, actually.<\/center>
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The quantity? Small, compared to what other orchards harvest in a year. The quality? Delicious baked into desserts, not so great fresh eating. It’s really all a matter of taste.<\/center>
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But beets from my garden….quantity after quantity, enough to can at least two dozens jars each season if not more.<\/center><\/p>\n
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Quality? So-so. I really have to sort through them, because some type of root maggot gets a few, but in general, very good.<\/center>
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I don’t think that quality and quantity are mutually exclusive. For the vegetable gardener, you really can have the best of both worlds.<\/center>
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Today’s letter in the blogging A to Z Challenge is Q, and I started thinking about two “q” words near and dear to my heart: quality, and quantity. Do you go for quality in the garden…or quantity?How about both?The great thing about growing a home vegetable garden is that you really can have it both…<\/p>\n

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