The Patty Pan Squash are coming....

so the harvest of Patty Pan squash has been prolific. I went to just 'check' my garden and came back with all of these:

And blackberries I picked from my CSA!

Random photos of garden and property

Ode to SUNFLOWERS!

I just can't get enough of these sunflowers- they are all heirloom varieties with wonderful names and colors :)

SUCCESS with the clay oven!

So last night I had my 'locavore dinner club' over and I tried out our outdoor clay oven. This was built many moons ago by some wonderful owners/gardeners using the clay from a nearby lake! Anyhow, although it looks abit 'rough' it worked like a charm. We had delicious pizzas: artichoke and sausage; and pesto/queso blanco/mozarella.

ONIONS are in!

Check out my garden helper, Katie. She plucked out our lovely onions!

Check out my garden helper!

Updated garden pictures....

Updated Pictures- Veggies and Flowers, oh MY!

Check out the latest progress on our sunflowers, random flowers, and veggies (including my first head of garlic)!

Thinking to next years garden...ALREADY!

I had some wonderful veggies from Gail's garden today....and made me think I want to plant some more things next year.

• GOLDEN SWISS CHARD- from abundantsees.org. Amazing taste, less bitter than normal chard. LOVED IT!
• melons, some kind of sweet fleshy type
• more DILL!
• fingerling potatoes
• Sunberry's
• Blueberries
• blackberries/rasberries
• MORE garlic
• that cherry tomatoe that I loved from Gail's....like little orange balls of goodness!
• more chamomile
• Kale
• Beets
• Turnips

OK, that is all for now!

BLUEBERRIES!

They are here, and in the truckloads! Always remember, end of June is blueberry time! Here are some pics from Eagle Tree Farm, a U-pick place for blueberries. $4.00/lbs.

First cucumbers!

wow! Went into the garden and was surprised to have two cucumbers waiting for the picking. The harvest has really begun!

Other devleopments:

• Sour Cherries were at their peak two days ago. I can't pick or pit fast enough. Pitting takes the most time... I just hate to let them go to waste, have had several friends over to pick. I did make a cherry pie and it was so DELICIOUS can't wait to have some more in the winter
• Hydrangeas in full bloom.
• Planted thornless blackberry plants with the grapes
• Got lots of Kale and Collards from GCF
• Got blueberries from GCF :)
• My dehydrator and pressure canner arrived, just need to learn to use them!
• Put up first batch of pesto! (have lots of kinds of basil- cinammon, lemon etc)
• Sunflowers are blooming, esp Moulan Rouge
• Yellow Yarrow is blooming
• Tomatoes are forming
• Peppers are forming
• Let peas go to see, as well as spinach and lettuce

For now that is it! No time to anything but pit cherries!

Today is only Monday?

So today I FINALLY planted the 5 wine vines Sebastien gave me (had to clear out the scary forest around the grape vines). So phew, that done.

• I also planted a thornless blackberry where one of the grape vines died.
• I tied up more of the tomatoes.
• I picked more cherries.
• I NEED to harvest more swiss chard!

In summary, everything is growing VERY well......watermelon looks good, bird house gourds are going up, pole beans have gone up 7 ft already, peas and lettuce and spinach are going to seed so I can save for next year.....and.....swiss chard is ready for harvest #3.

SOUR CHERRIES

OK, so it is mid/late June and the sour cherries are totally ready and totally red and ripe and ready for the picking. I feel all stressed out as every day that I don't pick, I feel I am wasting them! My dehydrator should be here soon- so I plan to dry them as well. My cherry pitter is one of the best tools ever! So next year I need to be better prepared for Cherry season. Pics of the cherries and their #1 fan soon.


Check out the time lapse of my first batch of fruit leather! (first one are just cherries, which are now cherr-aisins)