The first harvest that actually made it into the house: a couple snap peas, some tomatoes, a cucumber and some green beans. I barely remembered to take a picture before some of the things were gone. Journey and I really love fresh vegetables. So fresh snap peas were scarce and half of the tomatoes were gone by the time I took the picture. I have been picking a good size bowl of blue berries every day or two, and I did not take a picture of the bowl. Everyone loves blue berries and we have been eating them almost as fast as I can pick them. Journey picks his own.
I picked some zucchini yesterday, and more beans. Today I picked beans, broccoli, and tomatoes.
This morning I diced onions and half of the zucchini. Also diced a tomato. I sauted the onion, zucchini in olive oil and then added two beaten eggs. I gently folded in the tomatoes as soon as the eggs were partially cooked. It was delicious. I can hardly wait tor breakfast tomorrow. I have the other half of the zucchini and more fresh tomatoes & onions. Really good!
The container on the left is completely full of blue berries. Then there are the green beans and broccoli on top. The container on the right is a mixture of salad greens that I just pick as needed.
Above is one of my favorite plum trees. They are so sweet, and for some reason, this summer I am managing to beat the birds to a good percentage of them.
This is one of our many pear trees. The pears are not ripe yet.
I think this tomato plant got a little too much sun. But though it has a lot of tomatoes, they have not turned red yet.
Tomatoes and onions
Tomatoes and flat leaf kale.
Rhubarb plant, and Quest helping weed grass out of the garden.
Cucumber plant with broccoli and kale in front.
Behind the vegetables, on the concrete wall is a mural. This mural was here when I bought the house and I was not sure if I liked it. It kind of grows on you though and I found out that it was done by an artist that did some of the other murals on the buildings downtown. Wish I knew more about him. The mural he did on our wall is of Mt. St. Helens. That is the one that errupted in 1980. It was a huge erruption, and totally changed the appearance of the mountain. I do not recall seeing it before, but since the erruption, it looks like a huge haystack shaped mountain. This mountain is about 50 miles from where we live. If I drive up the hill a little ways I can see it clearly if it is not clouded over. Our house is about a quarter of a mile from the top of the hill/mountain? Never sure whether to call it a mountain or a hill, but I sort of think it would be called a mountain, as it is in a range of others. Anybody know? It is only a couple thousand feet high. Anyway, our mural shows some of the tree falls and lakes. There are elk grazing and it is nice to look at.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_eruption_of_Mount_St._Helens
Calliflower.
Zucchini, mint in the back, left side of photo. Green beans in the upper right corner.
Zucchini in front of bush green beans.
This is the herb garden, in front of Mt. St. Helen and an elk herd.
Blue berries. They are wonderful on cereal, or just by themselves with a little cream. I made blue berry pancakes over the weekend. I think my favorite thing is to cut a bagel in half, toast it and then spread it with cream cheese and lay blue berries all over the top of the cream cheese.
Apples
It is wonderful to be able to just pick things and eat them in the garden, or bring them in and make something with them. No stickers to pull off of the fruit and no worries about sprays. Just real food, safe from poisons.
