July 21st- Garden Overview
July 21st- Cucumbers
The cukes have been a little sparse so far. I think I'll make a small jar of refrigerator pickles this week. Hopefully I'll get more later to make larger batches of pickles to can.
July 21st- Strawberry Spinach
I hadn't heard of this type of spinach until I was seed shopping early this year. I haven't tried any of the leaves yet, but I did sample a berry yesterday. It was slightly sweet with a "berry" flavor as well as a "leafy" flavor. Make sense? :-)
July 21st- Strawberry Spinach
I'll be harvesting this spinach this week and will try the leaves & berries in a salad.
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July 21st- Green Beans ~ They are beginning to fill out and will be picked soon.
July 21st- More beans
July 21st- The bean tendrils are climbing higher every day.
July 21st- Tomatoes...Finally staked the tomato plants yesterday
July 21st- German Green tomato {info}
July 21st- Yellow Pear tomato {info}
July 21st- Pepper Blossom
July 21st- California Wonder Sweet Pepper {info}
July 21st- Paprika Pepper
July 21st- Pepper (will edit with details)
July 21st- German Chamomile
~Harvests since last week's update~
July 15th- Lettuce & Zucchini harvest
July 17th- Lettuce, Zucchini, Yellow Squash, & Cucumber harvest
July 21st- Zucchini harvest
This is what happens when you get busy, it rains a little and you don't check the garden for a few days. You get a zucchini about a foot long! I already had zucchini in the refrigerator, had cooked some last week, had baked zucchini chocolate chip cookies, baked zucchini muffins, had given some away and then found these. I cut two to add to our spaghetti sauce, cut several small ones into "sticks" to bread & bake, chopped up 8- 2 cup bags to freeze for adding to spaghetti sauce and sliced 5- 3 cup bags for layering into lasagna. Yay! No more zucchini in the fridge....until I cut more from the garden...today...or tomorrow. I'm planning to grate some & freeze it to use later in meat loaf and baking cookies, muffins, etc.
I still need to update on the flower bed makeovers from early last week and the new additions to the family and some vintage finds as well. I'll try to have a post about one of those up tomorrow.
Until then...Happy Gardening!
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