Week 17

When I got out to Southampton last Friday, I was happy to see my garden had exploded! I guess all that hot weather really helped. The tomatoes are like 6 1/2 feet high! It's like a forest. Everything is looking healthy and happy, and we even had our first tomatoes! The black cherries, mini orange, and striped tigerella had a few that were ready. So delicious.

Here it is from the side. See how tall those tomatoes are? It's crazy!

This is one of the big Japanese Trifeles. There are like 10 more on the bush.

Vegetable Garden Week 14

Hello! Another garden update. Everything looks good and we had more snap peas than ever. We still haven't finished eating them! I also had some beets and made beet chips - super tasty. And made our first fried zucchini blossoms of the season. More below.

Carrots in love!!

Beet Chips

Look at my pretty chioggia beets! Aren't they so cool looking? I made beet chips with them last night. They're so easy, really quick, and an amazing crunchy, sweet, and salty combination. Highly recommend! The bullseye pattern is harder to see once they're cooked, but they still look cool.

Ingredients:
Chioggia beets (or any beets) thinly sliced with a mandolin
Oil
Salt

Vegetable Garden Week 4

After being away for about a month, I went back out to the country last weekend and got to see my garden. Apart from being super dry, it looked great! (Especially once I watered it.) Four of the five brussels sprouts I planted sprouted, a perfect line of beets popped up (I'll need to thin them next weekend), and all the peas had sprouted! So exciting.

Brussels Sprouts

Beets

Peas

I planted another row of beets and carrots, a row of swiss chard, zucchinis, and cucumbers. I also set up a little trellis for the cucumbers and planted some lettuce underneath.