Grazing From the Land
Perhaps my favorite part of the summer growing season is when there are a variety of things becoming ripe in the garden. It is such a joy to step outside my back door and pick a couple handfuls of this or that to incorporate in our meals for the day. Above is the result from one morning trip about a week ago. We are finally starting to get some peas after we succeeded in preventing the rabbits from eating them. It won't be a bumper crop due to the lateness of the year and the intense heat wave we are getting as I type up this post, but it will be enough for a taste which is what I mostly want. The potatoes are fantastic! They are large and they appear to be plentiful with the new method I used for planting them. I wanted to dig out a few "new" potatoes but I'm not sure at this point they qualify for that. We will be using them heavily in our diet from now until we harvest the remainder for storage. We haven't yet mastered the storage part so really only get a few ...