Latest Photos From The Garden

 Onions and kale

Lots of beans.

If you look closely, you will see the first eggplant

Also here is the first tomato in my squirrel proof cage.

As always, cabbages.

Carrots

 Lettuce

Round 2 of the cucumber adventure.

Meyer lemon has 11 lemons on it.

Happy 4th of July

Just wanted to share our Uncle Sam with you on the 4th. He withstood the big wind storm last week. He was spun around and his hat needed to be nailed back on since it was slightly askew. Obviously we still need to work on that hat a bit because we did not get it fixed completely. That was some storm with winds at over 60 miles an hour, but he made it through.

Also a sneak preview of the blueberry nectarine pie I made yesterday to celebrate the 4th. We tried it last night and it is delicious.

Cucumbers: Round 2

Ok, I had to pull up my cucumbers that I planted in May because they were diseased. So that was not going to stop me. I planted news seeds a week and a half ago and they are now sprouting. This time I planted them in a large container and have a very fine netting (tulle) that I bought at the fabric store that has been placed over them. Hopefully this will keep all the bugs that infect with wilt away from them. Since they are Diva seeds, pollination is not suppossed to be an issue and I can leave the bridal veil ( tulle) on them forever.

Ice Cream

I have not made ice cream in years. Granny at Annie's Kitchen Garden inspired me to do so with her post from yesterday.So I pulled out the old Waring Ice cream machine and turned it on. At first nothing happened and I thought well perhaps it is time to toss the thing. Then all of a sudden I heard the wherr of the machine. Eureka, it was working. I decided to make a low-fat vanilla:

4 cups 2% milk
1 scant cup of sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix the above together well and add it to the ice cream can and start the ice cream machine according to the directions.

 Although the directions state you can use any fat content milk or even skim milk, I would not try skim milk. I used 2%.


I also made the blueberry nectarine pie from my June 25 recipe post. Instead of putting a top crust on the pie, I cut out 2 1/2 inch stars on the rolled out crust and placed them on top for the 4th of July. Since I belong to the Tuesdays With Dorie: Baking with Julia group, I can't post pictures of this month's baking adventure until the end of the month. But what I can tell you is that it looks very festive!

Tomorrow I will be making my sister-in-law's (Theresa) baked beans. They are the only baked beans I like and I will post the recipe. So stay tuned.

Harvest Monday

The garden is all about cabbage, beans and lettuce for now. The cabbage is a 3 pounder and we will use it for cole slaw on the 4th of July. The beans, I pick as I need them,  and this is enough for two of us with a 4 oz. harvest.

So far the lettuce continues to grow in a rather  shady area and has not start to bolt even in this very hot weather.
Daphne's Dandelions is the host for Harvest Monday, where you can share links to your harvest for the week. Please visit her blog and leave a link, so we can have fun viewing your harvest photos!

Rain

We are getting rain and that is wonderful. It also is being combined with ice cubes, also known as hail.

The 4th of July Week

This is one of my favorite time of year. We went to Findlay Market yesterday and bought real homemade German hot dogs for the 4th and brats. I plan to make a four bean baked bean dish which has the typical baked beans and the added plus are the butter, lima and kidney beans.. I can take or leave baked beans except for this recipe. Also planning to have cole slaw. Just picked a 3 pound cabbage from the garden. Plus, today  I plan to make the pie crust for the blueberry nectarine pie that I will finish up Tuesday evening for the 4th.
The garden is doing great and will post pictures this week.