Peaches and Beans

I forgot to show off the peaches I canned! And these are a few of the wax beans I grew this year.

Tour of the homestead

poppy


bush beans


pole beans and garlic


the girls waiting for a night time cookie


the blueberry bushes


euphorbia


the fire pit


lemon balm and forget me not


garlic


a little monster in the garden


moose antlers


the newest garden bed


the flower garden


the onions


something orange and pretty


the pole beans




the potatoes






the rock wall


sedums


shed


thistle


yellow poppy

Adding straw to the potatoes

We added some straw to our potato bin to hopefully increase the potato yield this year. The straw is a bit soggy now because of our weather so I am hoping I haven't made a poor choice.

Local & Home grown food

With food and gass prices rising I decided to try to cook as much as I can from veggies from the farmers market in the nearby town and the food I grow in my yard. A couple of weeks ago when the market started there was not a lot to chose from. But it was fun thinking of dishes to make and it even got me to like rutabegas. Not jerusalem artichoke though...I am still not fond of that.

This is what I had to work from:
Rutabega and Jeresalem artichoke


Purple flowering greens of some sort and leeks


Greens and beets


The first night I made pasta from scratch and added a rutabega, leek and carrots that had overwintered in my garden


I also added some mustard greens and herbs from my garden and garlic


Here is the pasta rolled and cut by hand


And the dish:

Seedlings

My seedlings are growing! Here they are a few days ago when they were still tiny.





So far I have planted artichoke, eggplant, cabbage, chives, thyme, acorn squash, lemon and sweet basil, mesa queen squash, brandywine tomato, delicata squash, black plum tomato, cherry tomato, dill, copra onion, scallions, red scallions, pumpkin, black beauty zucchini, stupice tomato, rockette, cucumber, and butter squash.

Growing your own food

Today I planted all kinds of things! Last year almost everything I tried to grow grew. Most of it really well. I decided this year to try to grow even more of our own vegetables. So today outside in containers I planted watercress, miners lettuce and a lettuce blend. Inside I started green and red scallions, black zucchini, a yellow squash, acorn squash and some dill. I am even trying to grow luffa this year to see if I can make my own sponges.