We have a very interesting neighbour, named Rose, who lives around the corner from us on the Dickson Road. She has a huge vegetable garden and preserves and freezes everything she and her husband don't eat.
Two years ago, she made mustard pickles with zucchini instead of cucumbers and gave me a bottle. Holy crap it was good. It was just sweet enough to lose the tart taste that requires other food to be eaten with it. I ate the entire jar in less than a week. I'd just put a spoon in it and eat a mouthful.
Her huge garden is fenced and she has no other gardens because all her birds run free. Chickens, guinea hens, geese, ducks. I love her yard but there's nothing pretty about it!
From her, we get our potato sets and our sunflower seeds. You'll see that only HALF of the sunflowers have bloomed so I'm hoping to have an awesome shot of them all open and soaking up the late summer sun.