This years garden is coming into the home stretch as you can feel fall in the air here.
Some notes;
Potato - wonderful. Still pulling a few out and making fried potatoes on the weekends.
Strawberry - I've never been a strawberry fan but there is nothing like picking, rinsing and popping a fresh strawberry in your mouth. Wish we had more!
Zucchini - Cori made zucchini bread this weekend. It's amazing!
Basil - After a slow start, the basil is going wild. Last weekend we got fresh dough (thanks to our friends at Vick's!) and made pizza on the grill. Basil, mozzarella and tomato sauce. That's it!
Sooo good.
Lettuce - The Romaine is the way to go. Some of the other types grow wild and are pretty spicy.
Spinach - After a slow start it's coming in now. Adding to tonight's salad.
Peas - What grew was good fresh off the vine. Not enough though.
Pepper - The first red pepper is going into the salad with dinner tonight.
Herbs - Need to find a way to use all the herbs. The oregano grows like crazy and we can't eat it that fast.
Garlic and Shallots - So much, we need to find a way to store it for winter eating. Cori made lasagna and added a bunch of shallots...wow!
Overall, after a slow start due to a cool and wet spring, the garden is where we head every night to see what's available to go with dinner.
Tonight we're having a salad from the garden to go with warmed up lasagna, The lasagna was made with shallots and basil from the garden.
And, so far, no deer have invaded!
What should we add to next year's garden?!?
daddy-o
3 comments:
I want to at least some of the peas next year! any you can help me make a garden of my own!
We'll find a nice sunny spot in your yard and we can plant it together.
You supply the coffees and wine (it's a all day project) and away we go...
Incredible...you're winding down and I just got a message from my weekend farm to start the second half of the growing season. Mother nature is a beast. Sounds like a wildly successful year in your plot. Some great variety.
We will be heading out Sunday to see what, if anything, survived the typhoon and also plant kimchi cabbage and radish for making kimchi this winter. Looks like we are going to take a stab at contuing a disappearing art...wish us luck.
I vote you grow some eggplant...they have beautiful flowers and add even more variety to your ecclectic garden. Pruning them is a bit confusing to me yet...I need to lug the book out there with me some day...
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