from the garden

veggies from the garden

So many veggies lately, here’s a shot from Wednesday:

Tomatoes & green peppers

Pumpkin below

picked on Wednesday

lunch

I have been putting all the garden veggies to use, just too exhausted and busy to take some pretty photos of my dishes.  All of the veggies below are from the garden, sweet!

My lunch yesterday:

cold orzo salad with cucumbers, tomatoes, onion, garlic, olive oil, basil, s + p

My lunch today:

raw veggie sandwich:  cucumber, zucchini, squash, basil pesto veganaise

today

I’ve been spending most of my time getting our food stored.  Yesterday I did another batch of pickles. Today I canned a few more sets of beans and made pesto from the huge basil plant.

I brought this in from the garden today:

cucumbers, basil, zucchini, and 2 tomatoes

Pepper almost ready:

canning beans

Today, we canned yellow and green bush beans from the garden.  I am loving the new Presto Canner, I used an old Mirro the other day and am very thankful for the new canner!

making pickles

Today I made pickles from the cucumbers that we grew in our garden.  It was so much fun, I really had fun with the easy, very easy process.  I made easy refrigerator kosher dill pickles.  I will let you know how they taste in a few days!

garden

The garden is really coming along.  I’ve been pretty busy eating and preserving beans, squash, zucchini and cucumbers.

basil is doing great, beans are beyond great, I just picked a huge bag of cucs, and the carrots have about another month to go…

cleaning veggies

beans, squash, zucchini blossoms, beets

garden pics

beautiful climbing half white runner beans:

provider bush beans on left

carrots, how gorgeous are these little things?

okra

garden pics

I snapped some pics of the growing garden:

provider on left, half white runner on right