Yesterday I went out to pick some basil leaves to have with dinner, and I discovered a handful of Cascadian snap peas were ready to be picked!
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| Cascadian snap pea |
I'm glad the peas are ready, because it's almost time to stop picking the asparagus.
Although this week we had no shortage of asparagus:
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| lots of asparagus this week |
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| More lettuce, asparagus, strawberries and cilantro. |
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Today I harvested more peas, strawberries,
chives, cilantro, and lots of kale. |
Aside from the basil which I planted from seed this spring, everything else that I harvested this week was either a perennial that I planted in a previous year (asparagus, strawberries, chives) or a volunteer that seeded itself from plants that went to seed last year (lettuce, kale, cilantro).
This week, the
Reduce Footprints Change the World Wednesdays challenge (#CTWW) is to plant some food. I decided to plant some of the bean and squash seed that I saved from last year.
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| Black beans saved from last year, still in their pods. |
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| A mixture of beans I saved including black beans and scarlet runner beans. |
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| Butternut squash seed saved from a particularly delicious squash. |
I planted the bean seeds along the fence where the peas are now so they'll have something to climb, and I planted two kinds of squash in small hills of compost right next to the beans - sort of a modified three sisters garden minus the corn.
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| compost hill |
I encourage you to plant some food for the
Change the World Wednesdays challenge and to check out the wonderful harvests at
Daphne's Dandelions.
Elsewhere in the garden, the roses are in bloom along with foxglove, columbine, geraniums, irises, oxalis, forget-me-nots, bleeding heart, peonies, and more!
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| oxalis |
