Garden In

It has been a busy week but the garden is in.  I will post pictures later, we outdid ourselves this year!! We have tomatoes, peppers, peas, beans, carrots, kohlrabi, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kale, spinach, lettuce, beets, garlic, onions, shallots, cucumbers, watermelon, cantaloupe, squash, potatoes, sweet potatoes, sweet corn.  I guess we will have lots to eat!!  The orchard is looking good, we will know in a few weeks what we will have.  The strawberries are starting to blossom. Hope everyone is enjoying getting their gardens in!!

Maiwein 2013

We're at it again. Herbed up some Riesling again this year - twice already. We loaded the bottle with sweet woodruff and let it sit for 2 days. Then added a sparkly Moscato and boom - a great refreshing way to great spring.

We add a half cup of sweet woodruff to each bottle and let it sit for 2 days in the fridge. It infuses a chamomile earthy tone that we enjoy.

Garden Tour 2013

I did this tour of the garden for Mother's Day. Enjoy ~~~~

Garden Pictures April 2012

The weather has really cooled off but there are a few things "springing" up. Here is a frost guard row cover. There are lettuce plants hiding below!

2012 Garden

A new year and a new garden. This has been a weird weather year in Michigan. A very mild winter, and early warm spring and then killing frost and freeze. Everything is ahead of schedule but the cold has hurt the apricots and maybe more of the fruits. Our cold frame plants are doing well, the cabbage, kholarabi, cauliflower, broccoli, spinach and lettuce are doing well. So far we have planted peas, onions, beets, spinach and potatoes in the garden. All are slow coming but the peas and onions have begun sprouting. I planted purple potatoes again this year as I love to make potatoe chips from them!!!

Recipes

We are still eating out of the garden! Tonights menu includes cabbage and apples, pork sausage with cherries, jalapeno and apple,we just dice small and fold into bulk sausage, add thyme, delicata squash and Shawns famous rhubarb pie.
Cabbage and apples
bacon, dice and fry, reserve 1 tbls fat add handful of diced onion, 4 cups thinly sliced cabbage, cook down until cabbabge is reduced by half or so, add 2 diced apples continue to cook down, add salt and pepper to taste, a bit of brown sugar or maple syrup and cider vinegar to taste, dish should be a little tart tasting.

End of the Season

The end of the garden season is her. We picked broccoli and swill chard today and picked the last of the cauliflower and kohlrabi earlier in the week. We had a nice long season. The lemon tree gave us 15 lemons, we have enjoyed lemon meringue pie, lemon cake top pudding, we are making limencello and maybe lemon cookies. The sweet pototoes are curing nicely and we hope they last until the end of the year or longer. We have enjoyed our variety of potatoes, the purple ones make good chips!