Taste of Summer

Summer is ending, which means soon the tomatoes will be gone. Poor Eli I don't know what he'll do when he runs to the garden to pick a nice fresh juicy tomato and finds nothing but straw!

Wordless Wednesday: Carrots

Garden Update

Oh the garden! I had so many plans this year, while I really don't do much with the garden (hey somebody has to watch the baby!) I had planned to document the progress of the garden. I figured we would do pictures every 1-2 weeks to document how the plants were doing, takes pics when we started harvesting things, I would keep track of dates when things were ready... I would make a chart or something so we would know where everything was planted.... I had so many plans, and I'm pretty sure that other than Rowan's Garden this is my first garden post of the summer- and it's now September.. oh well there's always next year!

We have 2 peach trees that have popped up through our compost pile, they look great- gotta love compost! They can't be more than 2 years old.

This is a lemon cucumber- it's alright, we had regular ones too but no pics since they are all gone now, these ones are growing like crazy!


Fennel- Mike insists, it smells like black licorice so I won't touch it!




Amayrnth (sp?) I believe it's a grain, Mike wanted to try growing it, I don't really know anything about it at all- but it is pretty!

Okra- apparently you're suppose to pick them when they are about 1-2in. long- oops. First year for this too.

Broccoli- we have had tons!! I need to find out if we can freeze it cause it just keeps growing!





Tomatoes- yeah they've sucked, but we did have some really good yellow ones. I decided I'll will keep the gorgoues weather we've had this summer and buy my tomatoes.

This is our only pumpkin- at least that I've seen) this pic is about 1-2 weeks old and it is now almost orange, it's pretty big too.



The wall of green beans- we've had tons of these too and have already frozen quite a bit.

Rowan's garden has done great, he even had some cantaloupe!







Another cantaloupe

We have 1 cabbage.

We also have a lot of carrots and brussel sprouts. I'm thinking maybe next year I'll learn to can somethings- maybe....

Fire

One of our favorite things about where we live is being able to have bonfires! To give you an idea of the size of the fire- we usually burn pallets- whole. The other night after Eli went to bed we headed out to enjoy the fire, Eli must have known we were having fun cause he woke up right away so he got to come out too, although was pretty sleepy- probably a good thing since he didn't want to walk and check out the fire.

The sky looked goreous that night, this is the garden lit up by the fire- on the right

The Sweet Taste of Summer

MMmmm tomatoes, fresh from the garden, we all love to eat them plain. Even Rowan, who lately won't touch anything that is actually healthy. Last week Eli got introduced to a fresh tomato and he is in love...





Actually obsessed might be a better word, maybe even addicted....

Eli now knows where the tomato plants are in the garden, and runs to them when we are not looking.... unfortunately he has not yet learned how to tell if a tomato is ripe

so he has picked many green tomatoes

of course the green ones aren't as tasty (or even as easy to eat) as the delicious red ones that give Eli such joy! He is truly in love when eating a tomato, but sometimes (ok all the time) Eli falls down, and when he falls down with a half eaten tomato in his hand, it's not very pretty, especially when he uses the hand holding the tomato to push himself back up, especially when he does this in a pile of fresh cut grass clippings, or a pile of tiny rocks....

then we are forsed to pry the half eaten tomato covered in grass and rocks out of his tiny hands...

and that makes for a very upset Eli......

hopefully he won't be forever scarred and grow up hating tomatoes.

Rowan's Garden

Mike gave Rowan a small square of the garden this year so he could have his very own little garden. He planted celery, peas, carrots, broccoli, a sunflower (for the peas to climb up), and awatermelon- his first lesson after stuff starts growing will be on thinning out the plants- and why you don't plant so much so close together!

First Harvest

MMmmm Asparagus, one of my favorites! And who knew it actually tastes pretty good raw too!