It is
Harvest Monday at Daphne's Dandelions! Come share your harvest and see what others are harvesting.
It has been a very rainy week here. The garden is loving it for now. Much more though and it just may drown.
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| Another pepper has been half eaten by a critter, probably a chipmunk! Other than that, I just love the beauty that comes out of the garden. |
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| This was the garlic in the picture above. Only two very large cloves and they didn't smell too garlic like, more onion like. I hope none of the others did this. I don't know what happened. Any ideas? I used them anyway in a jar of fermented pickles. I have yet to try them. (added note: I have never planted any garlic other than Music in my garden. These grew from my garlic harvest that I grew the previous year.) |
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| Got the second cabbage of the season and a ton of raspberries coming in! |
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| I made raspberry pie for a dinner party. Mmmm, it was soo good. I had never made home made pie crust before, let alone with fresh ground grains, so I was a bit nervous. But it was so delicious, it was gone that night! |
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| Flowers from my garden for the dinner party. They were so beautiful on the table! |
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| Made bread for my dinner party too, and this is the first time since using my fresh grains that it turned out this nice and smooth and high! I was excited it was successful. |
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| Some chipmunks or something have been munching on my potatoes. I think I need some traps! |
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| When I can't get out to the garden in the rain, the zucchini's can get away from me! |
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| Since it has been pouring rain all week, hard to get out in the garden. I picked a few raspberries here, but I did not feeling like fighting the wet bushes AND the bugs! Japanese beetles in your hair is just gross and wet hair too, more gross! Hate those things! Glad their season is short! |
The rain is crazy here as well. I found zucchini today that could double as baseball bats. Looks like I'll be slicing those to use as noodles in lasagnas.
ReplyDeleteIf you see a very large boat floating by in your garden (with pairs of animals on it!) you know your rain is getting to be too much! LOL!
ReplyDeleteYou are really getting a great amount and variety of harvests. What are you doing with all the summer squash abundance?
I have made zucchini bread, chocolate zucchini muffins, zucchini pancakes, vegetable breakfast casserole, a concoction with rice, burger, tomato sauce, herbs, and zucchini, and I have frozen some and shared some! I have 14 plants, I didn't intend on having that many but I couldn't get rid of the extras and couldn't waste them!
DeleteYou have fantastic colorful harvest of squshes, potatoes, beans, berries and carrots. For your garlic, I think you might have planted Elephant variety that smells and taste more like shalot onion when it's young.
ReplyDeleteSo many raspberries already! Now I'm feeling like I'm doing something wrong... Are those orange zucchini? Beautiful lilies from the garden as well. Very nice this week :)
ReplyDeleteI guess the zucchini do look a bit orange. They were just darker than the other ones on the plant and stopped growing, so I just picked em and used them. They are sebring yellow zucchini.
DeleteYour raspberries look absolutely delicious! Are those orange zucchini? So pretty. I don't think anything happened to your garlic. The cloves look like mild elephant garlic or young garlic. Elephant garlic usually have a small number of milk tasting cloves but they grow big. I also love your perfect loaf of bread. Yum!
ReplyDeleteEverything is beautiful. I especially like the raspberries. There is a farm near here that sells raspberry pies. They dispense with the top crust and line the pastry shell with chocolate. Time to take a drive. And I agree, that looks like elephant garlic.
ReplyDeleteFourteen zucchini plants! Crazy. I only have 2 plants and can barely deal with the glut. But it looks like you have found a lot of creative ways to use it up. Your raspberry harvests are enviable. My few plants just provide a snack for me while I'm in the garden.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and colorful harvest you have! I'll take some of that rain off your hands!
ReplyDeleteI guess I should have said that those garlic were the Music Variety. I planted them with my harvest of Music variety from last year. So I don't know how any other variety could have gotten in there.
ReplyDeleteElephant garlic maybe? It's actually a leek so if not cured completely it is going to taste and smell much more onion like than garlic. But still yummy! LOVELY berries and other goodies.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet that raspberry pie was delicious! No idea about the garlic, unless like Barbie said it's elephant garlic.
ReplyDeleteYou need to send some of that pie my way!! I love homemade pie. Looks like a great harvest week! Our zucchini is just starting to come on so I'm watching it ever day to be sure it doesn't get away from me!!
ReplyDeleteSuch gorgeous harvests! Sounds like a wonderful dinner party with homegrown and homemade raspberry pie and those pretty flowers. Hopefully the critters will stay away, although I'm sure your garden is irresistible.
ReplyDeleteYou are getting wonderful harvests and you make them look so pretty to take the pictures! The pie makes my mouth water and your bread is beautiful!!!! Love the flowers in the vase. So pretty. Hope your guests appreciated all this goodness! Nancy
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful pile of "fruits of your labor"! Lovely!
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