Backyard Garden, Farmer's Market, or Store?

Which do you prefer?  To grow your own?  To visit the local farmer's market?  Or just to buy your vegetables and fruit from the local grocery store?

We prefer to grow my own. 

Next is farmer's markets but I will admit, for convenience, I buy most at the grocery stores.  BOOOO.  Shame on me, I know!  Why would anyone want to eat what comes from the grocery store when you can have the joys of eating it straight from the garden.  And when I say straight, sometimes I mean straight!  I don't even bother taking it in to wash it because I know I haven't used chemicals on it so we can do just that.

This year our garden is a little more than last year.  I am not putting as much effort into it as I said I was.  I have good intentions but I cannot stand to scratch all day and even when I wear gloves my right hand gets this ugly rash on it that drives me crazy!  I want to wash the vegetables, cook and eat them, or preserve them in some fashion but I don't really like being in the garden much.  I really should help more in the garden but I don't.

So, what are we growing?  Okra, tomatoes, cucumber, beans (green), already had lettuce and sugar snap peas, potatoes, watermelon (red and orange flesh varieties), cabbage, corn and collards.  There might be more but that's all I can think about right now. 

I cannot wait until our seeds grow more.  I do enjoy going into the garden and seeing the plants grow.  Especially after it rains.  There's just something about rain.  You can water with a hose all you want, but our plants like rain! 

We planted most of our plants from seeds.  We planted some in mid-April only for them to not do a single thing!  Nothing!  We planted the same seeds 2 weeks ago and WOW!  They are doing great!  I will have to take some pictures and post them.  I am sure you are sooo thrilled to see how our garden is doing!