Here’s my 1st squash harvest. I picked this little jewel to slice up and put on a pizza.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t taste the squash at all on the pizza because of all the other toppings and seasonings. Oh well, I tried.
Category Archives: Garden & Yard
Garden Update – 6-8-2015
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- Roadside lilies
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- Our garden looking clean & healthy
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- One Ball Squash
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- baby one ball squash
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- cucumber vines
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- Bright Lights Chard
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- baby orange bell pepper
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- Green Beans trying to mature despite the rabbits trying to keep them trimmed down
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- baby tomatoes
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- One of the biggest tomato leaves that I’ve ever seen
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Wishing you all happiness with your
outdoor projects this gardening season.
Lavender herb or flower
My lavender is blooming. I bought it last year thinking I was going to give using lavender herb a try.
I read a recipe of lavender infused tea. Oh it sounded so lovely and pleasant like it would be refreshing on a hot Summer day.
I was talking to my BFF about the lavender tea. I pondered aloud “I wonder what lavender tastes like.”
My BFF laughed and said, “It probably tastes like purple.” lol
It was a bit late in the season for me to a start seeds, so I decided to buy an already growing plant. I found one at a local plant/fruit stand. It was a lovely little thing. On the way home I imagined myself, lounging on our back porch with an icey glass of lavender infused tea.
After I got the plant home, I looked it up on the internet and discovered there’s different varieties of lavender. The plant stake that came with mine was plastic with a picture of a grown plant and said ‘lavender’, but didn’t say what variety. So, I decided not to try it, since I couldn’t be sure if it was safe to eat or not.
I gave up on making any lavender recipes. Sadly, I took the little plant and planted it in one of my flower beds. It grew quite a bit over the summer. I figured it would die during the winter, but this Spring it was a nice surprise to see that it survived.
I don’t know if it’s edible, but I plan on letting it grow and survive for as long as it can. I think it gives a bit of character to my flower bed.
I know the photos of this lavender aren’t top quality. But for some reason my camera has struggles trying to focus on it.
Do you think this variety is edible?
Wishing you all a relaxing weekend.
Five Photos for Friday – 1st harvest, baby veggies, yucca & storm
Our 1st harvest of 2015
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Baby ball squashes
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Baby tomato
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Yucca blooms
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A thunderstorm sneaking over the horizon
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Wishing you all a fabulous weekend.
Updates: Gardening & Shelibean
The last photo I posted of Shelibean, he was playing in snow on the porch. Here’s a recent photo of him setting enjoying the sunshine sitting on the porch. We just went through blackberry winter and it’s been more than a bit chilly, so a day in the warm sunshine was enjoyed by all of us.
My 3-8-2015 taking-a-break post has a photo of my roadside lilies just starting to grow. Here’s a photo of them now, grown and getting ready to bloom.
My Basil is looking real pretty, it was such tiny seedlings in the last photo I had posted of it. I’ve already used my basil a few times. I enjoy harvesting it because the aroma fills the air and smells so nice: oh and it’s mighty tasty too.
We planted only half the garden this year. It’ll be easier for us to take care of. Hopefully, if the weather cooperates, even though it’s small, it’ll produce lots of yummy veggies.
It’s really hard to get squash and cucumber seeds to germinate in our garden. I normally start the seeds in flats indoors. This year I thought of a new method that’s less work & low maintenance. I’m happy to report it worked like a charm as you can see from the above squash photo. Below is a graphic that I drew of the method I used.
It occurred to me that one could dig a hole in the garden, fill it with potting soil and plant the seeds. This would basically be like planting the seeds in pots, only it’s in the garden and there’s no transplanting required. Cool!
I wish I would have thought of this years ago. ~happy dance~
In my 2-27-2015 post, I posted a few photos of ‘What a difference a day makes‘ in what the yard looks like, well I thought I’d share a photo and show what a difference 3 months make. Lush green foilage sure makes the area looks more cheerful.
I hope everyone had a pleasant weekend. I’m happy to say that over this long weekend we got all of our yard-work done and enjoyed several hours of sitting out on the porch. It’s a treasure to spend time together relaxing during the nice weather. We were especially happy that we were finally blessed with some rain. Our garden and yard was in desperate need of it.
Life has finally evened out here at the old homeplace. We’re feeling fine and doing okay. I’ve done a bit of sewing. I plan to share about it sometime (as soon as I can get fairly decent photos of my project).
Anyway, I’m back blogging and hopefully I won’t have to take another break for a long long time. ~crosses my fingers~and says a pray~
Wishing you all a pleasant week of sunshine and smiles.
Joys Of Creating 