From garden and farmer’s market to fork, delectables that survived the varmints – July, 2019
NOT FROM OUR YARD
Hannah brought blueberries which found their way into sourdough pancake batter. Bob returned home from Saturday Market with sweet corn, cabbage, cucumber, eggplant, coffee, okra, tomatoes, summer squash, cantaloupe, and sweet red bell peppers. This was before our own peppers began to ripen.
YELLOW SUNSET
One evening, while Bob was away at work, the sky turned a curious color, luring Camille outside. It’s a good thing she snapped these pictures, because a day or so later, the deer had eaten our double bloom day lilies to spiky nubs.
SIGH . . .
Although our two trees were laden with fat fruit, we only harvested and ate three pears. The Red-bellied woodpeckers and the squirrels got the rest. One day a bird would peck upward into a pear and open it up, and the next day a squirrel would pluck the pear, work its teeth into the hole and finish it off. Not huge pear fans, we resigned ourselves to growing fruit for the birds and squirrels, but when it comes time to harvest chestnuts, we’ll take a stronger stance.
OUR GARDEN
A colander a day of garden goodness keeps us rich in veggie sides and salads. The yellow tomatillos made nice gazpacho.
STOCKING THE CHEST FREEZER
Seven dozen peanut butter chocolate chip cookies = money in the bank. We find that frozen cookies do not lose any of their fresh-baked goodness.
SHOW GARDEN
Edamame, ginger, turmeric (at the far end of the ginger row), and sweet potatoes.
THE GREEN-LIPPED FROGS
We have a pair of impressively large bullfrogs living in the culvert that feeds our front drainage ditch.
PAYING THE PRICE
Leave a piece of bailing twine lay in the weeds, come along with the trimmer, and whammo – an hour spent screwing around with the motor housing. Unwilling to wait until Bob returned from an audit, Camille tackled this job with trepidation. All went well, and she was able to cut the twine loose, reassemble the trimmer, and finish the job.