This year's garden is pretty small; I've only planted 6 things. Beets, lettuces, spinach, corn, tomatoes, and cucumbers. All the favorites, and none of the stuff that won't get eaten. These are raised square foot garden beds. That desperately need to be weed-whacked, but we'll ignore that for now.
We've also planted an apple tree! Hopefully it will cross-pollinate with our lonely crab apple and we'll get some fruit within the next few years.
Lettuce!
Beets!
So far, so good. It will be a successful summer if no one gives me a zucchini the size of a garden gnome. I mean, honestly. There's only so much a person can do with a zucchini the size of a garden gnome.
Anyone else planted a garden this year?
I'm still working on getting my garden in. I'm hoping to get it finished this weekend. I started somethings under rows covers, and I actually have lettuce now almost ready, But most of it is tiny seedlings.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you like to do with beets? I plant them every year. I usually make a jar or two of beet pickles, and maybe cook up a beet or two and puree for my non-chemical version of Red Velvet Cake. But then a bunch of beets I never do anything with.
I just want to tell you, I have a teenage daughter who absolutely loves vintage clothing. I told her about your site and that you've sewn some vintage styled pieces. She's going to check them out. She's wanting to sew a vintage styled dress this summer. We were in an antique/vintage shop yesterday and they had a bin of old patterns. She was in heaven!
Sweet pickled beets! Honestly, that's what I do with 98% of the beets. The other 2% I roast in the oven and eat.
DeleteIt's great your daughter found vintage patterns - they are getting hard to find! Vogue and Butterick also reprint vintage patterns from the '50s and '60s, so their web sites are a good place to check out.
I live in a concrete jungle sans any place to garden. But that's okay because I can garden vicariously through you!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'll be posting garden updates all summer, so feel free to live vicariously.
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