So, I haven't been as diligent in photo-documenting our harvests this week. We have eaten several cucumbers straight out of the yard and given away as much. I smashed up so many zucchini with potatoes and garlic before it occurred to me to snap them into posterity. And, the saddest reason is that I feel defeated and therefore am a bit sulky about the garden. After all of the work we've done to rout out the ravenous rabbits, one little, but oh-so-destructive, Nibbler somehow found a way in and decimated my patch of Dragon's Tongue beans. Ugh. Accordingly, I have put a $10 bounty on its head. I have told the children that if they can catch it with their net, I will pay up and they may buy whatever they want. Yes, I am that desperate. I really do think that Ty will be able to do it. The children have spent good chunks of time already at this task and if they can just work together, I believe they will be successful. In the mean time, I am considering how I might protect the newest beans that I've planted. I don't want to turn our beautiful yarden into a fenced in jungle, but I might.
Here is what I did manage to capture:
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| Delicious cucumbers; kale; a mixture of Dragon's Tongue (pre-decimation), Purple Podded Pole and some green beans; zucchini, basil; and the first ground cherries |
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| More poppy seeds and some lovely carrots |
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| More super-tasty cucumbers, the last of the first batch of carrots, some beets (How tiny they are compared to those from our CSA!) and two garlic bulbs that had been hiding |
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Enough said.
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I also harvested another half of a large bucket of la Ratte potatoes, four cucumbers and more zucchini from the
dacha. And finally, the eggs haven't been as plentiful, maybe because of Ilka's broodiness and the heat: There have maybe been 14 this week.
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| A lovely salad: kale, oregano, borage flowers, onion, mint, beans, cucumbers, mizuna, chrysanthemum greens, chard, rat-tail radishes, some random red lettuce that I found hiding, broccoli side-shoots, marjoram, parsley, basil and... THAT ENORMOUS, AWESOME, DELICIOUS, DELICIOUS, DELICIOUS TOMATO!!!!!!! AH!!!!!!! THANK YOU, GOD!!!!!! |
Lovely harvests. And whoohoo for your tomato. My garden is definitely a fenced fortress. A good fence and covers here and there to keep the insects out. I hate them, but I'm keeping them because they work too well.
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