Cranberry Relish

I found this recipe on the blog, Set the Table and I have made it every Thanksgiving since.  http://setthetableblog.com/homemade-cranberry-sauce/      She lived in Japan for a while and concocted this recipe with Sake, and it is very good.

Simply Peppers

Slaw

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Half a Kentucky cabbage and half a purple one from California.  Kentucky cabbage is just not very sweet, so I sweented it up and added some color with purple cabbage. Then I grated half a rutabaga from my Elmwood CSA which adds an earthy, nutty flavor.  Added carrots from the San Luis Valley, again much sweeter than a Kentucky carrot.  Spiced with salt pepper and fresh basil leave.  Mayo to taste!

Too Much Okra

I take back what I said last week.  

Too much okra this week, with minimum 2 more pickings on the stalk.

Peppers and Pumpkins

Here come the peppers, along with spaghetti squash.  Little pumpkins too!

One weeks worth of Okra

I will freeze it all!  You can never have enough Okra.

OKRA

Two rows of Okra

Towering over my head

Regular

Spinless

Tomato Season

This is our second picking.  Our first picking is canned into 16 pints!

Prolific Patty Pan

Patty Pan still coming in.  We froze a bunch, and have been braising it for most suppers.  Tomatoes are coming in and okra will start coming in this next week. 

Squash Still and Pickles.

Squash and cucumbers slowed down a bit this week, we were very dry.  Raining cats and dogs right now, so we will see if they keep making.  I am making mint dill pickles.  Here is my recipe.

Gather ingrediants

grind mint in 1 C sugar

dissolve in 1 C vinegar

Clean, cap and slice pickles adding garlic,turmeric and dill

Pour vinegar and 2 c of water over cucumbers and place in refrigerator.

 

Cucumber Relish

This is my cucumber relish, marinating in the vinegar and spice overnight and will be processed in a hot water bath in the morning.  This is the recipe for cucumber relish in the Blue Book.  Except I added mint ground with some of the sugar, fresh turmeric and dill in the vinegar, along with 2 Tablespoons of the pickle spice from the food coop (which is essentially the spice asked for in the Blue Book recipe).  The vegetables include 8 medium cucumbers, 2 red peppers and 2 green peppers, 1 onion and about 4 cloves of garlic.

Green Beans

Green beans are coming on.  We grow Slenderettes, and this year added Maxibel which is also a long slender bean.  

and Cucumbers

 

 

Second picking of squash and first of cucumbers.

These little cucumbers are tasty with a real nutty flavor.  I made an oriental salad out of the big ones sliced, and occidental pickles out of the small ones cut length wise. 

Here comes the squash!

First harvest 2018

Summer squash bed

 

 

Young basil plamts went in where lettuce came out

Young tomato bed

Bean Field

Here are our rows of beans along with our rows prepped for adding our peppers.  We will finish out the garden with winter squash which I am planting later this year attempting to avoid the squash borer egg laying. 

Tatsoi

I found a crop of Tatsoi in the weeds.  The first planting of chinese cabbage, planted on 4/15, failed; but this second planting did better.  Probably was planted a couple of weeks later.  There is a bug in the spring that loves to eat on the green, which really doesn't bother it in the fall.  This really is a better fall crop.

How's your garden growing?

Mine was growing in seedling pots till this weekend.

David made the rows

Added horse manure

I planted the tomatoes.  Peppers went into the middle garden but no photos yet

Also put in two rows or okra seeds around the peas which are almost done.

Cucumbers coming along, garlic almost ready!!!

Summer squash bed looking good.

Peas and Lettuce

Peas with lettuce under cover

First Picking

Garden Pea Green Manure

First harvest 2018

Peas on Earth Day

Peas and Greens

These peas along with radish lettuce and spinach were planted St. Pats day.  Last week the rest of this bed was sowed with a third row of peas and bok choy.  Spinach seedlings were sown today along with cilantro seedlings. 

Cilantro

Spinach in the sun

Got Garlic

Another wet snow last week, 4" on first day of spring.

Hyacinth

This hyacinth and early daffodil 

were here when we bought the farmhouse

Garden 2018 Begins

The early daffodils are blooming even through the 8" snow on March 12th. 
Time to plant peas.  I put in 2 rows of peas and row of lettuce and radish today. 
We had tilled a couple of weeks ago, and it was dried out enough on top to plant
them in furrows and cover them up.  We got a load of horse manure for our rows.   

Early Daffodils

Wet snow on March 12th

Naked Ruben

This was so very good, Ruben without the bread.  We melted a slice of Swiss cheese on corned beef in toaster oven.  Then they were plated with sauerkraut on top and thousand island dressing.  I did not want to heat the kraut, but David did.