Over the course of the past several months we have been able to have a number of beautiful garden fresh salads. Thanks to plentiful and delicious carrots and green onions we always had something fresh from the garden to go with pesto (made from basil we grew and locally grown mac nuts) or homemade veggie pizza! This was the last best pizza we made, early in the summer.
We recently (finally) harvested the last of our carrots. We had left them in the ground far to long. They lost their wonderful crisp sweet taste and grew all kinds of strange twisted appendages! They are still good to use in soups or stews, or even grated; just can't have them alone, otherwise they have a very sharp flavor. . similar to a parsnip. There was one carrot that looked amazingly animated like some sort of strange creature of the garden. . .We also finally planted our collection of pineapple tops. They had been accumulating for several months and one of our friends gave us a hard time about not planting them, so. . . here you go Kelly!
This is our turmeric plant in the gray pot. We planted some sprouted turmeric root and sprouted ginger root that we purchased at the store and they both have leafed out quite well, but the turmeric, wow! It is over 2 feet tall now and has another new shoot of leaves.
When we returned from our trip to the east coast back in late May, we were very happy to discover that the Lychee tree fruit were ready for picking and eating! We tried a variety of ways to pick them and never got a good idea of how to reach the ones at the very top. But the tree was loaded and all the fruit were so delicious and juicy and tart-sweet!
Also upon returning we found that our pest-resistant mustard greens had a white mold on their leaves and also had grown tall yellow flowers. Amazing what can happen in only 10 days time! We let the birds eat the seeds for a few days and then we decided to cut them down and use the space for something new.
We had many excellent green bean harvests throughout the summer. Despite the way the leaves had been totally devoured and made into skeletons by some mysterious creature, we continued to get lots of delicious beans.
Also, we continue to get lots of hot peppers.
