Weekend Roundup!

Hello! Good to see you again.  The past weekend came and went pretty quickly. There were just so many garden "things" to do.  After I read the Sunday newspaper, I parboiled and vacuum sealed  two 8 ounce bags of snap peas...not a lot, but it's a start. They then went immediately to the freezer. It's THE way to keep your vegetables and not have them become freezer burned. With so much beginning to come from the garden now, the "sealer" will get a serious workout.

The next chore, after watering the garden, was to pick the dill and use the microwave kit to dry it. The dill shown below (before microwave) took two minutes to dry. This method also retains the color of the herbs you dry, rather than turning brown as they do when air dried.

With that done, I headed back out to the garden and set up to screen the finished compost.  It took  awhile, but yielded three 5 gallon containers of fine material at 22 pounds each. I've already started incorporating it into beds. All of last year's vegetables responded very well to the addition of this rich amendment, so I have no doubt it will give all a nice boost again this season. What truly amazed me was the HUGE number of worms that came with every shovel full I placed into the bucket. If I lived near a body of water, I could have opened a fishing bait stand.

The raspberries were the next chore. They're very much at their peak right now. The container shown below is the full pound I picked in a matter of about twenty minutes. More raspberry ice cream???

I didn't have a chance to take a picture of this year's first eggplant after it came in. It had already been sliced for parmesan. It was absolutely delicious!

Check my two garden friends below. Attract pollinators to your garden. Plant flowers like this purple echinacia which can host a butterfly and a bumble bee for lunch. Hopefully, after they're finished here, they'll head on over to the big yellow zucchini blossoms for dessert!

 

I'll be back here later in the week. I hope to see you here, too!