We had a good haul of green beans, so today we canned them. (This picture was a little too much for the full load. I’ll cook the rest tonight).
And now we’re roasting tomatillos, onions, and jalapenos for salsa (fresh and frozen). Apparently I’ve been letting the tomatillos get overripe (yellow) so we did a mix.
Pics from Friday
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
Pulled up the first few onions (the driest) and have them curing in baskets
Same with some of the garlic
The varieties in West E are MASSIVE. All of the things I’ve pulled look healthy (:
Got the first few yellow beans, and a couple of sun gold
Still thinning out the carrots and beets
A couple of baby onions and leeks are coming up in the seeded bed.
Raspberries! (There are blueberries at the neighbor’s)
Arugula is reseeded
Tiny baby scarlet runners
Green bean flowers
More pretties
Upcoming yellow beans
Still getting a few peas, and finding some I missed
Did a bunch of cooking. Raspberry coulis, sauted garbanzo peas zucchini and greens, carrot tops (boiling water 3 minutes) garlic garbanzo cilantro lemon juice hummus, roasted carrots patty pan beets onions, fresh bread… yum.
Garlic and onions are prolly going to be coming out soon.
I’m very happy with how my starts are looking.
Lots of planting today. The weekend is going to be in the 80’s, nights over 50. I hope I’m not jumping the gun!
Green and yellow beans planted.
Peppers (healthy, jalapeño 2, mini bell 2) and tomatillos 3
Tomatoes (nova 2, legend 1) and okra (clemson 3, jambalaya 3)
Added a sungold to the nova.
One of each pepper in a bag (healthy, waltz, jalapeño, mini bell, anaheim)
Squashes look oh-kay. I might add a seed to each for backup.
I’ve been doing some basic things in the yard. I moved one Nova and one tomatillo into season starters, they seem to be doing ok, so are the squash. I put another patty pan and delicata on the slope, but the season starters won’t work there so I made a cover from a basket and plastic and I open it when i open the greenhouse every day.
Got tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, okra, squash, and basil seeds planted and on a heat pad.
I used mostly organic potting soil- with the last of the seed starter mixed in.
Things are definitely pointing towards fall. We’ve had a LOT of rain and the tomatoes just didn’t do well. I made a big soup today with what I could salvage
The patty pan by the driveway is still a monster though.
It’s been wet. Everything is looking a little sad
