Recent Garden Pictures

Garden Update

This week we are harvesting broccoli, peas, and mustard greens.  My daughter is having a great time.  My nephew was over yesterday and he got to taste vegetables straight out of the garden.

In my mind, I got the onions and the garlic switched.  I thought the garlic wasn't doing well and that the onions were going like bonkers.  It was the other way around so I think next year I won't do onions.

I definitely need to make the garden bigger next year.  We need more broccoli and I need more to fuss with in the evenings.

Dinner

I actually a bit proud of dinner last night.  It was nothing special in the cooking department, the ingredients are what I'm proud of.

The steak, butter, garlic, and oil were from a store.

The salad was two kinds of lettuce from the farmer's market and edible flowers from my herb garden.  The yellow squash was also from the farmer's market and cooked with basil and oregano from my garden.  The bread I baked myself last weekend.

Kitchen

My Mom came over Saturday afternoon to put burlap on another wall in the kitchen with my help.  Now we have the corner next to the sink and around the chimney.  We're going to have to use spray adhesive instead of staples on those areas.  We'll be applying on top of the painted wall paper that is already there so we won't have issues removing everything later when I decide to gut the kitchen.

The burlap really does change the look of the kitchen.  It tones down the peach of the painted paneling on the bottom half of the walls.  I found some nice cafe curtains in brown and cream stripes to match everything.

While I had that half of the kitchen torn apart I decided to rearrange a bit to open things up some more.  I moved the rolling tile top wooden cart to the end of the island and the garbage over next to the dryer.  I also put the stuff on the prep counter in the cabinet above it.  It looks much better in there.

Next up in the kitchen is sanding down the cabinets from my Mom's kitchen remodel, painting them white, and putting them up in the laundry area of my kitchen.  Right now I have nowhere to keep my plastic food containers.

Gardening Report

We've been harvesting broccoli, edible flowers, and herbs.

I staked up the tomato plants over the weekend and it looks like they're doing well.  There are a lot of flowers and some actual green tomatoes.  The mustard greens have sprouted and the pea plants are getting big.

I've been given a lot of plants so I'm working on those now.  I've planted two dahlias and five day lillies in what should be interesting colors.  My neighbor dropped off a flat of begonias so I'm working on distributing those.  I think the final four will go into a shade garden in the back.  I have a couple of hostas to put back there too.