The garden is bursting at the seams. It will soon be that we are harvesting something each day after work. We finally got rain this week. We have been having to water with the hose but it is amazing the difference in water quality from the sky. No chlorine or fluoride does a plant good.
I have been harvesting chocolate mint and using it to make a simple syrup. It is delicious in tea. Just a hint of sweetness and packed full of chocolaty mint flavor. I will plant some more pots of mint next year since I have discovered this nice little treat.
The patty pan squash plants are covered in mini squash. These are the first two that were ready to pick.
Blueberry season is upon us. YEAH....got one pint on the first picking.
We have been eating some good sized onions from the garden for a couple of weeks now. These three pearl sized ones had tops that were already starting to die back so we went ahead and harvested them. They will still slice up nicely and be sauteed with the squash.
These are the first of the mini white cukes for pickling and a couple baby carrots I pulled to test for size. The carrots were also in the way of the pepper plants so I needed to pull them to give the peppers some breathing room. The cucumber vines are
covered in tiny cukes so we will be harvesting them a lot in the next few weeks. Our friend Louise gave me seeds a few years ago and I have saved some ever since. I am now out of these seeds so I will need to let a few go to seed this year so I can have more next year.
And lastly.......don't ever complain of the cost of spices. This is a pan of rosemary that is drying and below that are sage leaves. Some of the sage I dry as whole leaves and others I crush. Huge bundles crush up to be a few tablespoons. I also did some thyme and those leaves are
really tiny. Mostly I just use it fresh but when it is at peak I try to harvest some.
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