The real reason the French don’t get fat

[dem in texas]

64. Yes, so many good vegetables you can grow in your garden

I used to keep a vegetable garden year round here in Texas. The miniature green beans, they'd climb up my fence, I'd pick a batch for Sunday Dinner. A big bush of cherry tomatoes, they keep on giving after the big ones play out in the Texas sun. Brandywine tomatoes, oh my! They don't always do well in Texas, but in the years they do, it makes worth all the effort. Lettuce and greens of all sorts in the winter and early spring. Fresh herbs year round, just snip them right out the garden and in the summer, pick and dry. Plant carrots with your kids or grandkids. When they are large enough to take out of the ground, let the children do it, their eyes will widen with surprise when they see that orange carrot coming out of the soil. I have even been out on a cool winter evening, using my flash light, to harvest kale that was getting big enough to cut. Best of all, no chemicals, no pesticides, picked at the peak of flavor. Well worth the effort. I tried strawberries one year, but the slugs won out. Now, I buy them at the farmer's market.