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Homegrown organic salsa

Pass the chips!

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Oh how the garden grows!

We are eating fresh salads completely grown at home with cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuces and green onions.

We are eating amazingly tasty squash.

We are enjoying fresh mint in our tea.

We are going to be eating peas very soon, and corn after that.

We have eaten the first two peppers and look forward to many more.

Yep, growing your own veggies is totally worth it...and SO delicious!

We've been busy...

Swimming...

Riding...

Gardening...

Having fun together...

Quilting...

And just enjoying the relaxing pace of summer.

Hope you have been too!

Garden to table...

Today's harvest included a squash, two cucumbers, broccoli, lots of lettuce, and some herbs.

Tonight's dinner included the roasted squash and broccoli, salad with cucumbers and ice tea with herbs.

I also made whole wheat pasta with sun dried tomato pesto, and multi grain bread with garlic and parmesan. But I didn't grow any of that.

It was obviously very fresh, and super delicious. But the best part?

All five us together around the table.

It was a bonus that everyone liked it!

Today's Harvest

One very large squash for this recipe,

some broccoli and lettuce, 

and green onions for this recipe

 and some mint for the tea.

YUM!

These flowers...

Smell simply amazing!

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Poison Ivy...

across my forehead, behind my ear, on my neck, down my arm...

and even a spot on my back. (Don't ask, I have NO IDEA how it got there!)

Don't worry, I am NOT going to share photos!

Let's just say that pulling weeds is tricky business.

The good news is that the garden is very happy!

The tomatoes are growing by inches every day.

The squash is looking very healthy.

The lettuces are popping up.

The sunflowers are too.

The peas are going gangbusters.

And me...I'll be soaking in an oatmeal bath.

It's always something!

 

Sprouts

I get so excited when this happens.
Every year I plant seeds and wait...
And thrill of seeing the sprouts is always the same.
I love my garden!

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In the garden...

is one of my favorite places to be!

So it seemed the natural place to play with the photo settings on my iPhone.

I was snapping away with the camera and playing with the options.

Quite absorbed in what I was doing and not where I was standing.

Until...

I realized I had stepped on a SNAKE!!!

Yikes...yes I did yell out loud.

And then I ran in the house to tell Bill all about it.

After I described the all black, two foot long wiggly thing.

He replied... it's just a rat snake.

So I had to ask...are they dangerous?

His response...only if you're a rat.

It was way more excitement than I needed.

Garden photo updates tomorrow...once I've recovered from my ordeal.

 

 

The second strawberry

I let Bill eat the first one...
So this is the second one to harvest from my garden this year...
And it's all mine!

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