Making A Meal

We always joke that this is our snacking garden, that there isn't enough food at one time to make a meal.  Well, we were slow in getting there but we made it happen.  We just eat all of the greens together!  I can't believe that we didn't think of that sooner.

So, here are all of the veggies that we would cook together and add to our meal. There's broccoli, snow peas and Chinese broccoli.  They all go well together and you end up with a veggie medly.  We steam and then saute with garlic. YUM!  We were on a roll and didn't buy veggies from the store for a long while. It feels so rewarding to eat from your own garden.

So Proud!

Eureka!

It may not look like much, but I am so proud of this little veggie stash. In our last garden we got about 2 handfuls of cherry tomatoes before the poor plants gave up. Now look!  A little bit of this and a little bit of that!  And even more still outside growing. Cool. Just too cool. I look at this picture and just smile, smile, smile. Nothing like Dad's haul but not too shabby.    Officially in this picture are green beans, red  and orange mini bell peppers, jalapenos and a tomato.  The hubby can't get over the color of the tomato, he says it's in HD because it's so red. I suppose in a man's world, that's a great compliment. 

The peppers are an interesting surprise. I bought orange "yummy" peppers from Lowes and it had 3 plants in the one container. I thought, score! Three plants for the price of one!  Turns out none of them are what they were labeled as. Two plants are the yummy size but not coming in orange, they go from green straight to red. The one plant that is actually orange is a different variety of mini bell pepper, not the same shape as a yummy. Still cool though, I'm not complaining! 

Almost Ready

banana peppers

 The veggies have been a delight to watch grow. Ruby and I go out to the garden almost daily and take a look at what's changed. All those pretty flowers have turned into glorious veggies!  We already harvested some of the lettuce. The tomatoes and a few other things are almost ready. It won't be long now.

mixed baby lettuces

Totally different lettuce seed mix

It's so cool to watch them change color.

Just about ready!

jalapeno with leaf miner trail