Green Beans out our ears. I finally pulled the last of the start onions and garlic, braids coming soon. Still got some berries- and more tomatoes and tomatillos. And carrots and beets
I’m loving the carrot top “pestos” with onions, garlic, whatever green herb (basil, cilantro, oregano) and an acid (red wine vinegar, citrus). P put it on pizzas tonight.
More things
Strawberry volunteer
Before and after garlic cleanup
One of the rhubarbs
Squash climbing the grapes
The most beautiful onion
We mulched a bunch more yesterday, made some progress.
Today i planted beets, carrots, and parsley in South C (which I prepped with more soil and compost yesterday.
There were actually some tiny onion and leek sprouts from my seeds, i added the tiny “winter sowed” sprouts to the bare spaces.
Next year- start winter sow earlier, January?, and make sure to water.
something went digging in my peas. It looks like an animal of some sort. The sprouts are mostly intact, just buried.
Arugula is bolting. I guess it flowers based on time?
What to say… There is much food. The Arugula is delicious, I’m also growing it inside, in the Aerogarden.
Some of the onions are still going. The hops are GIGANTIC. I found one okra, and that is enough to make growing them from seed worth it. The tomatoes are doing well, ripening. P loves spicing the sauce ones up and cooking them down into sauces. I think we have enough that we might eventually tire of that and have to can some. Green beans are doing well. I think the squash could use more irrigation (note for next year) as could the blueberries. (I filled a pocket up of blueberries yesterday. Whimsical!)
Uhm, looks like I might have a couple of Brussels sprouts and some leeks this winter; raspberries are happy.
Strawberries are having a second (small) berry time. Yay!
All of this is perfect timing to make me little less aware of my health. My gallbladder went from warning me occasionally, to hurting whenever I have any kind of fat. I do have a relatively low fat diet as a vegetarian who mainly eats home cooked meals, but I am missing my cheese and olive oil something fierce. There is hopefully a cure on the horizon, but it will mean a short break from tending the plants.
In the meantime we are getting creative with proteins, and I have developed a snack I call “hand salad”, which is basically a handful of lettuces (kale, arugula, mesclun) and tomatoes which I shove in my mouth.
It’s like potato chips, except not at all.
Take that nutritionist!
It’s been HOT here, and dry, so I’ve been watering things, and today this bounty!
I lightly stir fried it with some onion, basil, and garlic, with some salt, feta, and vinegar over cous cous. Yum!
I planted some more arugula, Brussels sprouts, leeks, cilantro, and cover crops in the bare spots. Hopefully I get more sprouts.
Today I did some fall planting- Brussels sprouts, leeks, green onions in South C (soil well fluffed with amendment), cover crop on South D…
Peas, beets, and carrots in West E.
Arugula and leeks in upper A.
I made up a bowl of future-salad. I also planted some basil seeds with my plant (and spilled dirt on the floor!) and replanted some cat grass for the kitties.
I cooked up a big stir fry up work on this week (Garden: yellow squash, zucchini, garlic, hot peppers from the freezer, beets, beet greens, chard, kale. + beans) This is my favorite way to eat up a bunch of greens, and makes a lot of food (:
oh! And I’m out of cilantro seeds, so I’m trying out some of the ones I harvested last year for coriander while my plants bolt.
Strawberries are still nuts, blueberries are starting but the robins won’t share.
P sent me out for cilantro.
Yum.
We are without electricity today, and I decided not to go downtown because of the SNOW and instead opted for working in the yard a bit… I’m almost able to feel my toes now. /:
Planted chard, kale, and romaine in upper b. (romaine is furthest west)
Put leeks, beets, and carrots in south a.
I really fluffed up the soil there (and found a patch of mycelium), with the hope of better root crops. Let’s hope bunnies don’t like carrots IRL.
Peas are JUST starting to break the surface, and some ejected themselves from the soil (:. Saw a tiny bit of green in West E- beets and radishes.
The onions are looking a tad bit better (the old greenery died off, but new stuff is pushing out). I just need to remember that this is how they roll.