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Thursday, September 18, 2008
There are bits of orange in our backyard.
Little round carrots in the garden.
And this pumpkin. A pumpkin vine spouted from our compost bin this spring. Lots of pumpkin vines really. Here's a composting tip... don't throw all your jack-o-lantern guts in the composter unless you want a bunch of pumpkins growing out of it. For some reason this was the only vine that survived our rainy summer and it only had one pumpkin on it. The pumpkin was about 7 feet from the begining of the vine and grew on the garage alcove roof.
I am very proud of my one pumpkin. I made Aaron take this Martha-esque picture of me with it.
We are loving the veggie haul we are getting from our co-op farm.
This is what we got today... see those two green peppers?
We made them into stuffed peppers for dinner. I don't even like green peppers, but I like stuffed peppers. I just eat the guts out of them and leave the pepper carcass behind. Cheese is also key.
Although we loved the CSA farm we belonged to last year, it was more than a half hour drive away. It wasn't the best thing to be driving there and back each week. This year we have switched to Wndy Meadow Farms which delivers everyone's produce to drop off locations and we only have a mile to pick up our veggies. We can even walk there or take our scooters.
This week was our first veggie pickup. We even got to choose what we wanted. We selected potatos, radishes, spinach but no... absolutely no cilantro. We are cilantro tastes like soap people. Well, they still gave us cilantro anyhow. That's okay. The radishes were really good.
We just harvested the last of our garden for the year. The final crop
was our butternut and acorn squash.
I have pictures of this year's garden on My
Gallery.
Aaron made yummy butternut squash soup, but I forgot to take a picture
of it so all I have is a picture of the soup tureens we ate it out of. This
recipe is really good, esp if you put a dollop (or two) of
creme fraiche on top.
I also moved all my herbs inside and now my dining room smells like
sage and rosemary. Yum.
I have pictures of some of this year's flowers on My
Gallery too.
Garden update. We are swimming in tomatoes. Our heirloom Cherokee
Chocolates (left) and New Zealand Pink Pears (right) are ripening like
crazy. The zukes are pretty much over and there are some straggler
cukes. There are several acorn and butternut squash moving right along.
I think the real beauties of the garden this year are the striped
eggplant.
We got quite the haul today at our CSA farm. Several varities
of squash and beans, some cucumbers... and my favorite... sunflowers
and zinnias for my dining room table.
We also saw Ginger at the dairy. She is getting even bigger.
Must remember to bring her a granola bar next time.
We have harvested the first of the veggies from our garden. Three
cucumbers and a zucchini. We made a cucumber, onion and tomato salad
and Lucky
Olive's zucchini recipe.
Check
out this strawberry I got at Wegmans. Monster strawberry.
I also moved all my herbs inside and now my dining room smells like
sage and rosemary. Yum.
