We are deeply in the harvesting stage. And it might take forever to pick something, or it can take 5 minutes.

When you pick potatoes, you have to exercise a lot. You bend to pull the plant, you kneel to pick the potatoes, than you stand to dig around with the potato fork, to find a red or yellow orb stuck deeper, you kneel to pick it and you bend to pull another plant and so on.

With vine crops there is a lot of break dancing around the vines, which grow in all directions. So what used to look like a neat path in between rows might be hard to find and walk through now. That’s why it is good to have some stretching skills and bones made out of rubber to avoid stepping on the stem and still be able to pick some cucumbers.

Zucchini is a different story though, you can basically load a truck of zucchini and not even pick a half of your small garden patch. My favourite to pick! It grows so fast that even squash bugs get confused and can’t recognize what they tried to damage yesterday, because today it looks twice as big. It’s like to go to sleep in Rhode Island and wake up in Texas.

Bush peas, it’s kneeling all day, like sinners used to do in the Middle Ages. Carrots: quick and easy pull, unless it’s too dry. Then you sell only carrot tops. Beets: fast, beans -sinners like the peas, unless they are pole beans. Tomatoes: small ones take a while, big ones: we will know soon. Bananas: we don’t grow them, yet.