It always starts out small.. one thing at the time... and you think you should have planted more.. More strawberries, more greens.. more everything. Then it ramps up and trickle turns into a stream. It's the simple pleasures of daily life to go out in to the garden after work, with the basket in your hands, and pick and snip whatever you wish for dinner.
Some are new to the garden and were planted last fall, like Pineberry that is white with red dots. Taste is not that much different. I do prefer Alpine Strawberry (pictured next to the Pineberry) for taste and fragrance. Even if they're smaller. Added to the fresh salad they are exquisite. Salads have been picked daily and now that scapes are ready to pick I definitely have a variety of flavors.
And of course my snacks - snow peas and shelling peas, and snap peas for stir fry. I didn't plant too many of them unfortunately as the area where I normally plan around the borders is being favored by our resident groundhog. He's not letting any peas or bean get above 4 inches before he gets his paws through the fence and pulls them right out.
But I still have enough to eat, even have some for jam.. if I ever get my body to cooperate and actually do something with the berries. So far my quick fix solution has been my freezer.
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We have some alpine berries that are yellow. I like them better than the red version of them. Though both are good. I rarely pick them though. I usually let my townhouse mates pick at least at this season as I have too many regular ones to pick.
ReplyDeleteI have yellow ones as well and I usually have them as snack on the spot. They're rarely make it inside the house :)
DeleteEverything looks terrific - especially that lost show of strawberries! Scrumptious. Laughing about your comment on thinking you should have planted more. I swear I've planted kale four times now thinking it's coming up too slowly and I'm probably going to get pounded with it a month from now.
ReplyDeleteStrawberries are not doing good this year as it was too dry when they were forming and too wet now that they're ripening, but still enough to eat. Glad to hear that you'll have kale to spare :) at least it freezes well for winter.
DeleteBeautiful harvests! I know what you mean about a trickle to a stream - you seem to wait forever for that first produce and it seems to come in dribs and drabs for a bit and then BAM - things start flowing and at times it's hard to keep up! Or at least I find it hard to keep up. I still need to find my harvesting flow, I think.
ReplyDeleteI love harvest time and could do every day, but the weeding I have a problem keeping up with :( Can't wait to end of July/August when some of the tomatoes and squashes will kick in.
DeleteSo true about the pleasures. Great that you have peas to enjoy now. Maybe you need chicken wire around your garden to keep out the evil paws of Mr. Woodchuck.
ReplyDeleteWe do have chicken wire as a fence and he still manages to pull plants through the fence :(
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