Today we finally harvested our first ears of corn. We had some for lunch and it was deeeeeelicious! This is the first year we have grown corn and it only happened because I mostly took over the gardening and insisted on corn. Chris always thought corn was too much trouble. His opinion has changed as of today. We will grow corn every year now.
We are already looking forward to dinner.
Mom, we will bring you some Thursday.
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Where did last week go? I know I was busy and I know that I did a lot of things but if I look back on last week's goals it doesn't look so hot.
Instead I made a LOT of jam (17 jars of cherry and 12 of blackberry), I dyed a boat load of fabric and I did a lot of gardening. With the heat (and I'm not complaining about the heat, I don't mind it at all), the garden has required a lot of water.
We will start eating corn this week. I'm so glad we planted some because most of the corn around here is suffering from the drought and there will not be much local corn available this year.
I am impatiently waiting for this big pepper to turn orange because I can't eat them when they are green.
I had intended to plant a red bell pepper but instead I planted hot red peppers. I think they will be yummy in my bean salads.
After a break for about 5 days the squash plant is working overtime. I'm so glad because my other yellow squash plant died. Of course the 3 zucchini plants are producing like crazy but I can't eat those!
I'ave also been eating lots of potatoes and carrots. We had friends for dinner last night as we served potatoes, carrots and zucchini that was fresh from the garden. It was yummy with the big juicy grilled steaks.
Today, however, I am back to sewing. So while I don't have much to show you today I will later in the week. Meanwhile, go see what everyone else is doing at Judy's blog.
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I'm sorry to bore you with my garden but I am having a blast doing my little bit of gardening every day. I especially enjoy it on days like today. We have the most perfect weather today. It's a perfect 78, sunny and breezy. We have every window open in the house. It will turn blazing hot again soon so we will enjoy today as much as possible.
My corn is tall and producing lots of ears. We will know in a few weeks if they are any good. The melons are growing under the corn and are providing great ground cover. There's hardly a weed in there. The squash and zucchini plants have done better this year than ever before. They are huge and producing LOTS of fruit. I found this recipe for Squash Soup and I'm now making it to freeze. The soup is yummy even without the onions that I cannot eat. It's also low fat.
My pet cantaloupe is growing like crazy. I hope she's going to be sweet and yummy. She has lots of brothers and sisters on other vines.
I've started harvesting some potatoes (that we will have with squash for dinner tonight) and carrots. Chris will even have a tomato soon....a real Hanover tomato. Hanover tomatoes are supposed to be very special but I can't really speak for that since I can't eat them.
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