Garden freshness for lunch

Before.

After.

Yum.

Other goodies.

And good friends too. :)

garden 6/18/11

There are treasures in the garden! My favorite kind too - zucchini. :D

Ha. This photo makes it look like everything is blending in. However, the stakes and cages on the left are because the tomatoes are getting bigger. 

Cucumbers! They look a little different than last year. More prickly than I'd like, but we'll see.

Mini toms!

SQUASH! :D

Here's a zuch.

And here's some baby yellow sqaush.

Watermelon vines.

Cooked this for lunch.

garden 5/11/11

The garden is LUSH! It's also very hot, so the lettuce is a bit bitter. Not great for salads unfortunately. :( But, still nice in a sandwich.

looks like we needed to mow the grass... ;)

all the lettuce!

radishes growing

broccoli

a view from the other side

potatoes (left)! squash (right)!

radishes from before and speckled romaine lettuce (right).

from left: salad bowl, romaine, bibb

mesclun mix and more

hehe they are so pretty. the radishes kept getting bigger and brighter. the colors were marvelous!

that's what I like to call, an easter egg radish. :)

broccoli rabe

This was fun. We'd never made them before. We grew them in the garden, so we were pretty excited to finally have a taste.

We lightly sautéed them and ate them just like any other traditional leafy green. :)

garden (mid april)

garden 4/3/2011

hehehe. here we go again!

radishes

garden 3/16/11

this is how the garden started.

so cute!

little rosemary

little lettuces

A little peak at what I've been up to!

Taken today.

garden 10/5/10

This was an exciting day. We finally got to try the lettuce! And oh my. I've decided there's nothing like eating a salad straight from the garden to the plate 5 minutes later.

It's also gotten a bit cooler, so Jonathan built this amazing shelter for our plants. We like to think of it as a steam room to fast-forward plant growth (we got our squash seeds in a little late).

Enjoy!

Jonathan showing off his hard work. What a surprise is was to come home to this!

The tires are left over from the potatoes, and them seem to work well to keep the plastic down.

See those marigolds in there? Yeah. This plastic oven only made these babies bigger.

Ah. We pulled out the watermelons. Decided it was too cold. There were about 2 full sized ones. Some flavor, but really they needed a little more time on the vine. Oh well, we will try again next summer!

Yowza! The lettuce is continuing to grow. If you look to the left, you can see a little row that is just sprouted. Lots more of this goodness to come.

Romaine.

:)

This picture isn't the prettiest, but I was running around too much to set them up in a row. Most of these were too small, but they were a pretty decoration for a week or so.