Thursday, July 23, 2009
Dehydrated tomatoes
Last year I got some sun dried tomatoes from a friend/organic farm manager and they were super delicious! When we finished them I bought some at the store and they were not even close, not as sweet. I found out from my friend that she used Juliette tomatoes, so, this year when we sought out tomato plants I made sure we got some Juliette's. I've been so looking forward to making these, hoping they will turn out just as delicious as Kay's. In with the Juliette's we dried Roma's and a couple Speckled Roman's. And yes, they are delicious!


Pickles
We received a water bath canner for an anniversary present, and we have been harvesting lots of cucumbers so we decided to make a batch of pickles. We followed a basic recipe and added jalapeno, garlic, black peppercorns, and grape leaves. We will let them sit a couple of months and see how they turned out, hopefully it works because we are making more tonight!


Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Morning glory
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
drive work drive garden drive work drive garden
ever notice that when you start doing something you like other things in your life don't seem as important and aren't as fulfilling?

today we picked all the beets that were left in the beet box, some carrots, MORE cucumbers, sungold and juliette tomatoes, 4 strawberries (the most to date) and 2 scallopinis. we did this in about an hours time. after driving and working 8 hours it was the best part of our day. although, today is Wednesday which means we went to the Davis Farmer's Market and The Village Bakery for a slice of pizza and that is always a treat!
today we picked all the beets that were left in the beet box, some carrots, MORE cucumbers, sungold and juliette tomatoes, 4 strawberries (the most to date) and 2 scallopinis. we did this in about an hours time. after driving and working 8 hours it was the best part of our day. although, today is Wednesday which means we went to the Davis Farmer's Market and The Village Bakery for a slice of pizza and that is always a treat!
Monday, July 6, 2009
More harvesting
We picked this first bunch of stuff on Friday July 3rd. Notice the 5 cucumbers, this is getting to be a daily occurrence.
We didn't pick much on Saturday or Sunday. But tonight we picked the first round of Roma's for us, plus another bowl full of sungolds. Just one squash today.
Tonight was a big haul of cucumbers-12. There are alot more that are very close to ready, so I'm sure we will get a bunch more tomorrow.
This is the first one of these for us also, Spreckled Roman. It looks cool, we see how it tastes later tonight.
Looks like time to make some gazpacho.
Friday, July 3, 2009
I can't believe this is our back yard
Our Nasturtiums. I've been putting the flowers in our salads. This is the first time in my life I've eaten flowers and it's still quite a novelty for me.
failed camping trip
Daily harvest
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