I almost couldn't wait to wash these off before eating them. There is something spiritual in eating food picked fresh from your garden. Its satisfying and strengthening. Perhaps this is because the food is basically still alive and you have the opportunity to enjoy the plant's nutrients before they begin to weaken and bio-degrade. There is a touch of raw foodie in me. I love eating apples right off the tree, strawberries plucked and delivered to my mouth, sugar snap peas, tomatoes, carrots, melons, the list goes on and on. When I have the opportunity to eat raw veggies and fruit, I have to take it. Winters are long and cold here.
I harvested the last of the green beans the Japanese beetles and bunnies left for us. I pulled up the remaining stalks and threw them into the compost pile. I re-planted sugar snap peas instead of another batch of green beans. I'm hoping we'll have just enough warm summer left to be eating more garden candy the end of September.
We have a few melons so we'll have to be diligent about watering everyday. While we were at the family reunion, my potted flowers in the back of the house didn't get any water. I pulled up the dead plants and planted more basil and cilantro. Hopefully we'll be able to harvest herbs before the first frost, but in theory, since they are in pots, I could bring them inside. The last herbs I grew from seed in pots matured so quickly.
The mystery seed I spilled in two of the Square Foot Garden beds were sunflowers. I decided to leave them and see if they bloom. Next year I want to grow sunflowers along my neighbor's fence line. I never got around to planting them this year. We do have a few other wild sunflowers growing near the bird feeders.
The milkweed we left for the monarchs bloomed really quickly. We didn't seem to have too many days were we could watch for honeybees and count them for the bee project we belong to. We have seed pods forming already. Is it really that late in summer or should we expect an early fall?
I did see a chunky monarch caterpillar a few days ago, but we've lost sight of him. We were hoping to have several more to help the monarch population crisis. We have hoards of earwigs so hopefully they aren't eating too many baby monarchs.
5 comments:
Your carrots look so good! Hope they are sweet!! You are so right about harvesting from your own garden! I have so many fond memories from my childhood. We always had a HUGE garden - sweet corn, tomatoes, onions, peppers, melons, lettuce, radishes, carrots, green beans, peas, and even potatoes. My dad grew up on a farm. Our garden always flourished and fed us all winter. Mom canned and canned and canned, and froze and froze and froze. We had to help. It's a good thing, gardening! Good luck with your re-plants!
Carrots look yummy. Good luck with your plants. I don't seem to have a green thumb but I keep trying
Ooh, I bet those sunflowers will be pretty!:o)
Your carrots looks great. I planted carrots in my garden but only a few came up....not enough to do anything with and they are still too small to pull up....everything in my garden is late this year because of our long cool spring...hopefully soon I can pick some peas and beans, they seem to be doing pretty good....enjoy your bounty.
Looks so yummy....we are starting to see our Garden Candy ripen....soon will have an abundance of tomatoes and green beans....then comes the different squashes, watermelons, cantelope.....yummmmmmmm
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