Your eyes do not deceive you my friends! Yes I am finally updating my blog.
February of 2016! And I haven’t even shown you the rest of last year’s garden. There’s much to tell you about since we last chatted back in July, but first things first and this post will be for catching up with the rest of the season. Last summer’s garden is a distant memory already and these pictures remind me that it was a pretty good year although at this point I can’t even quite remember the details of it. Right – oh, I know. I remember I was impressed actually with how well things did considering the long-lasting, cool spring we had paired with a few pelting hailstorms, each one progressively more damaging, leaving leaves and stems hanging by threads. All that hard work, seed starting, transplanting, and coddling, shredded! It was a Great Year for roofing companies, let’s just say. I think I may have already talked about the hail — I bet I did, this is sounding familiar. No matter; it was a surprisingly satisfying year with a solid harvest in general and more tomatoes than expected. Then again when you set your expectations to ZERO, a number of things do tend to look surprisingly good! (Do you smell a life lesson too?)
The pictures really do look luscious don’t they? The beauty of this garden absolutely fed me and kept me grounded when I needed to block life out for a while and put my bare feet on the earth and my hands in the soil, or relax with a cup of tea and admire my living, growing, changing, edible creation.
POTATO OF THE YEAR!
Siamese twin squash blossoms
‘Early Silver Line’ Melon – they were seedy and not very sweet, strange texture, not that tasty.
Zucchini Parmesan about to go into the solar oven
Destemming elderberries
Elderberry Fluff (cooked & pureed elderberries) – I love it
*****
glad you’re back on the air–it’s been a while.
your potato of the year is sensational !!
send it in… seems like prize-worthy, somewhere in Idaho.
and your tomato harvest is beautiful, want a nice variety.
your tomato, cucumber, feta salad makes me hungry and WHO is that basket case cat??? whatta life !
Thanks – yep it has been a while. I hope to get back into the rhythm of posting. Isn’t the potato of the year incredible!!!! More incredible is the fact that I even FOUND it in the soil.
The tomatoes were especially picturesque this year, I agree. Tasted just as good as they look in the picture too. Yeah that greek salad was making me hungry last night when I was posting the picture of it. Oh to have a garden tomato right about now. That salad is worthless when made with grocery store tomatoes.
Luv,
L