June

 Here's some cute kids, just for fun.

 Never too young for a hammock!

 Dinner from the garden!

 One month old!

 Splash pad fun!

Pickled Green Tomatoes

So I decided to try something new today. Since it has been so cold lately, we've had to pick all of our green tomatoes, which is a LOT. I've never even tasted pickled tomatoes before, but why not have 6 quarts of something you've never tried? I mostly used cherry tomatoes, using this recipe here and actually cut enough up to do 3 more quarts or so, and tons of regular sized ones I don't know what I'll do with. Anyways, here is the final product:

More GARDEN FOOD!!

So we have picked tons of food over the last week or so, mostly tomatoes. Here is a pic of ONE DAY'S worth:

And this is what I did with 25 out of the 38 lbs of tomatoes:

It is a yummy pasta sauce with garlic and peppers, which aren't in the picture, but I did pick 4 that day too.

Here is another day when we had an eggplant, zucchini, onion, tomatoes and basil:

I made a Ratatouille of sorts, with Quinoa added as well.

Yum Yum! Now I just have to figure out what is for dinner tonight........besides tomatoes!

Garden!!!

Ok, so I have not posted in FOREVER! I am going to cheat the dates on my next few posts, but I will do just one a day, so that it won't pile up all at once because you might miss some! Anyways, I thought I would start with something general, like our yummy garden food. 

This is a basket of food I picked....

  

And then I did this:

And here it was! YUM!:

And then there was this yummy food:

(I know we should never let the zucchini get that big, but oh well, the skin was just tough)

And then THIS:

Happy gardening!

Garden Food!

So, over the past month or so we have been getting tons of greens from the garden! Kind of too many to handle, really, but it has been great. I don't have nearly enough pics of it all, I may have to borrow some from Will to update this with later, but here are a few:

Broccoli

Peas when they were still blooming. We ended up getting about 10 lbs of peas!

 Here's one batch of shelled peas we had with a dinner. Yum Yum!

I also had a fresh picked salad with them:

Here is another freshly picked lettuce salad. I only wish the tomatoes were ours, but they will be in a few weeks! Can't wait! We have been using our own spinach every day in smoothies, and have tons of different lettuces we can use with practically every meal. We also have more broccoli to pick and some cabbages now too! 

By any other name.....WORK!

It has almost been 1 year since we bought or house! That means last year we didn't have to go through the pain staking work of pruning all of the ROSES! So, our last week or so has been spent outside (which I'm not complaining about), but also has been spent pruning roses, and we are only like half way done with them. We will definitely be saying goodbye to some of them, and probably to more next year. I do like having some, but holy cow there are more than 30 of them out there. Here is a pic of my big helpers! If they are willing, lets use 'em, right? ;)