We've Been Busy

We have some good excuses as to why we have not put up a post for 3 weeks. We have been busy in the garden as you will see.  We also went to the beach "to check on the old folks" as my Mom loving refers to our visits and calls now.  While at the beach we celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary, walked on the beach and had a nice visit in general.  We are happy to report that the "old folks" are doing fine.

Back home in the garden we have been busy with............

asparagus-we had multiple meals out of our first year crop.  Next year we should have a lot more. This is just one picking,,,,,it looked as pretty as flowers in the vases.

French breakfast radishes...don't know why they are called that but we had plenty to use in salads and now that they are done there are carrots growing in their place.

Rhubarb- lots of it- 34 pounds to be exact. I think we are done cutting for the year

Red Russian Kale- this is the first cutting and it is really starting to put on now

Onions- with this years rain we have finally been successful in growing good onions. We have pulled some to use in meals but most are just continuing to grow big

Lettuce- we got a late start on our lettuce.  I hope the soon to be HOT weather doesn't make it bolt

Potatoes- we are trying a new technique this year.  We are growing them in straw.  We read great things about this method so we gave it a shot.  We will see the final result later in the summer. We planted 4 different varieties

Green beans growing on our new trellis

Squash that sprouted from the compost pile. Mystery variety as only time will tell what it is.

Tomatoes- lots and lots of tomatoes is various areas in the yard. We have several varieties growing; some for eating, some for canning, some for spaghetti sauce.

The new bean trellis. The weight of the beans have always collapsed the supports in prior years.  Hopefully this will be strong enough

 Sugar snap peas. These are about done and crowder peas or edemames will go in their place.

In addition to this garden stuff we have both been busy in our respective workshops; Pat completing a project that I will show later and Lisa quilting away. Oh yeah, and we do still have jobs. We will try to be better at more frequent postings.