Blue Ribbon

     Before you look at this first picture, I must admit that this is not our pumpkin. Although we did have high hopes of growing our own larger than life, blue ribbon State Fair pumpkin, the squash bugs got word of our plan and devoured our largest one.

     Since taking MB and EC to the NC State Fair last year it has been a goal of ours to enter something of our growing in one of the fields. With all the interest in our CSA and the work involved, we temporarily lost sight of this vision. That is until yesterday!  We were working on cleaning up one of our undisturbed compost piles that had been overflowing with the healthiest sweet potato vine all summer long. Oh, had the fair just been one month later, we certainly would have entered this............

    Look closely and you'll see that scale reads 6 lbs. 5.2 oz.  Our average sweet potato this year weighed about 5 oz.

WHOA!!!

And to top that off, we dug a sssssssnakey sweet potato:

   There is truly nothing that compares to waiting all summer to dig up a harvest you've worked all summer to grow.  I'll take the squeals of two happy children over winning a blue ribbon any day!