Garden Salad

First salad of the season with lettuce fresh from the garden. It was dee-lish-ous. It had tomatoes, red onion, orange pepper, cucumber and fresh chives. I layed it all out inside a little cold asparagus "log cabin". Lately I've been experimenting with making salad dressings consisting of olive oil and a mixture of herbs and sprices. Today I used kosher salt, fresh ground pepper & minced oregano. It was decent. To go with it, tuna with fresh dill, a little mayo and cut up cucumber.

This meal has gotten me excited for more meals fresh from the garden. Early next week the kale should be ready and the spinach is popping up fast. Yum!

Garden Update

Here are the changes in our garden from June 15 to today. Pretty impressive!


It's come a long way since we first planted.


'Mr.Big' variety of peas (I apologize for Jason's hairy belly button)


'Neon Lights' Swiss Chard

Lettuce



Hollyhocks

Zucchini Plant... with 15 flowers!

Brussels Sprouts

Carrots

Sweet Peas

Rhubarb

Apple Tree

Kale

Honey
Onions
Beets

My Garden

No recipes today - just some garden pictures. I figured these would be more interesting than a picture of the 3 fish-sticks, 14 french fries & spinach salad Jason made me for dinner (thank you Jason).

I spent some time watering and weeding this evening and took pictures of the progress:

We split our first strawberry tonight! Very tasty and we are looking forward to more but we're only going to eat them if they look like hearts.


This is my "mesculin" mix. I planted it last Saturday and it's very excited to grow. It grows in a big pot by the backdoor.


Jason took this picture of me looking for signs of grass growing in the backyard. Nothing yet!


This is our apple tree. Last year it gave us 11 apples. We took those 11 apples and made 1 pie. I think it's got more to offer this year.


The first little tomato growing in our hanging pot. Can't wait for these bad boys - I read in a magazine that you could scoop out the insides of a cherry tomato and fill it with hummus for a snack. I will most likely be doing that the minute it turns red.

Garden = Planted

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Swiss Chard
Brussels Sprouts
Kale
Peas
Edamame Beans
Lettuce
Spinach
Carrots
Onions
Potatoes
Zucchini
Rhubarb
Raspberries
Apples
Dill
Chives

I think I've got it all! I'll post weekly to show the progress. Can't wait to see what works in there. The hard part is definitely over...fingers crossed for grass soon! Now, we must sleep.