Now We're Cookin'

Finally some things are coming out of the garden. Kale - oh gosh - yummy beautiful green kale! Love it in my breakfast eggs (fresh eggs I buy from one of the folks that I work with) along with whatever needs to be cut up and fried from the veggie drawer. You know, those parts of peppers that haven't been used up, the little bit of onion left from some other dish, garlic - awwww yum!

Kale and Small Yellow Onions

Lettuce, small onions, sugar snap peas -  all making their appearance on the dinner plate, they really brighten my day!

Window Box Lettuce

I am also trying to beat the birds to the black caps around the edge of our yard. Hopefully I will end up with enough for jelly or jam. Jelly, I am thinking would be better for Dad and my guy prefers jelly as well. Ok, that made up my mind, it will be jelly. I also noted the amount of Wild Rose Brambles around the edge of the yard. Hopefully I will get to try some Rose Hip Jelly later this year....God willing.



Black Caps, Second Day of picking them.



The rain has been relentless this year, storm after storm, I just can't get into the garden like I would love to. So, I take it in doses. Many things have been put in rather late. Time will tell how they will fare, as it will in every gardener's year.

I've lost most of my strawberry plants, some blight got into them and wiped out my patch except for a very few hardy plants. Those will be encouraged to spread out and fill in the patch. If all goes well in another couple of years there will be a decent patch again.

The Gooseberries are teasing me, one or two ripened and now they are all just staying green. That is until I have my back turned for too long, then bammo, I will have to get my butt in high gear. It will probably be the hottest day of the summer when I will have to be in jeans and a long shirt to pick them. I am not complaining though, that is just the way it goes..... Looking forward to freezing some and to making some jam. It is my humble opinion that a Gooseberry Pie is a wonder of wonders. How can such a sour fruit produce such a yummy outcome?

The weeds, I should report, are thriving.