The beans in the new bed in front of the house (I'm not sure what possessed me to want to plant more beans!!)
The potatoes (they're really small, I know. The soil has some deficiencies, but we'll work on building it up)
Romaine lettuce, yellow zucchini, volunteer zucchini and pole beans
Swiss chard! I planted a variety called "bright lights" and it's very pretty, with yellow, red, pink, purple and green stems/veins on the various plants.
Onions, marigolds and beets
Basil and onions
Carrots and tomatoes!
Peppers and cukes (LOTS of cukes!)
The new bed in back (we put a row cover on it for a little while) with kale and lettuce
I tried sun-drying some kale to make kale chips. It worked pretty well until it started getting windy and blowing the dried kale away! I had to finish them in the dehydrator.
It's an apple. It's an alien. It's kohlrabi!
The lettuce out back
This tomato looks like three growing together!
Spinach (I'm surprised that this spinach actually grew over the summer! I guess it was cool enough for it up here)
I'm currently harvesting cucumbers every day, and yellow zucchini every other day or so. The beans are slowing down a bit, thankfully (since we have PLENTY of them already!). We have enough lettuce for us to eat about 10 salads per day... most of the broccoli is in and processed, along with the cauliflower... what else. Oh yeah! We made our first batch of basil pesto! It is SOOO delicious. I should pick more of that soon. Anyways... let's just say I'm almost a vegetarian these days. :-) I even brought in a head of cabbage yesterday. That is significant because I thought that the cabbages were goners due to the out-of-control cabbage worms.
I'm happy that our garden this year has been very rewarding. We are greatly blessed with lots of produce!!
Hey Julia, I've seen kohlrabi before....how do you use it? What does it even taste like? =)
ReplyDeleteIt SORT of tastes like a very mild radish. You can slice it and eat it raw, grate it into coleslaw, steam and puree it, saute it, and there are probably other uses for it, too. It's a neat plant!
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