Hello friends.
Let’s cut to the chase. Where have I been? Well, not around, but not in jail. Does this clear it up? Good.
The garden has been quite productive this summer. We have enjoyed modest yields of peas, green beans, cucumbers, carrots, Swiss chard, a variety of lettuces and recently have had our first tastes of tomatoes, onions and garlic. We have some fennel and cabbage that are about ready to harvest. Now, let me remind you that this garden has been 100% organic and all started from seeds. We have even begun to save aside some dry seeds for future gardens. Ahh, the circle begins.
Ever try fresh cucumber in your glass of water?
Musical Fruit?
Tomatoes, onins, carrots, oh my!
Slices of heaven, and lycopene!
I see cole slaw in your future.
Future green beans begat from our current green beans.
The heat this summer has been just tremendous. A day missed watering sent the garden in to a spiral of wilt and sag. I, myself was in the same spiral. I don’t deal well with the heat, especially the wave we have had this summer.
Many tomatoes are ripening and there’s a new batch of Swiss chard ready for a skillet and some good bacon. We have had some rain recently (finally), but the earth seems to just turn it straight into humidity. So, on a recent watering I was talking and caressing a sagging squash vine (very important) when i discovered this…
Fall must be knockin'!
This is the first of the squash, butternut to be exact. I’m hoping for many more and also some acorn squash. I better go start weaving my cornucopia!
Good to be here again,
FV
Eat This NY
The Duchess of Amboy
Hello Stranger!Iknow I saw you in person a few times but your absence from this space has been missed.
The garden at our house,despite the heat and weeds was very bountiful and ZP is saving seeds for next year. We enjoyed tomatoes,sweet peppers,kale,garlic,beans,zucchini(the Italian variety),and broccoli.It was amazing that the tomatoe blight only hit a few of our plant and they were in containers and not in the actual garden.I tried growing a Polish tomatoe and it did ok but caught the blight.(Ithink I’ll let ZP stick to the Italian variety from he seeds from Italy(shhhh).All in all not a bad year.And this doesn’t count the amazing Raspberries and black berries that were produced.(More raspberriesbut the Black berries were few and delicious).
So for those who have the room in the yard,plant less flowers and grow some things that you can actually eat!You’ll be glad that you did!And as ZP justifies her happy enlargment of the garden;you’ll have less grass to cut!
Now that you reappeared,where in the hell did you go? One short stay I’ll say.
Just thought I would check to see if FV had posted anything.Guess not.Wish he’d get abck on track,he had a good blog going.