I harvested our first green beans. I'm not wild about green beans but I thought they might be fun to grow. They're very prolific and (so far) pest free, so I might learn to love them. I'll try these in a Schezwan recipe; Schezwan makes everything tasty.
Fantastic Filet Green Beans
Basil GenoveseI'm playing with harvesting methods to see if I can keep the crop going throughout the summer. I whacked off the top two-thirds of several plants which yielded a couple cups of pesto. I trust that they'll branch out and produce lots of new leaves. I'll only be happy if I can harvest a bathtub or two of basil this summer.
Homemade Pesto with Homegrown Tomato, seriously goodIf you walk a moment to the right of the weekly picture,
you'll come upon this view.
The river is low. Earlier in the week, a glimmer of white (not in this picture) caught my eye and, as I walked outside, a Bald Eagle took wing from the gravel bar on the right. We've seen eagles here, on and off, for a couple of years now, and I think it's safe to say that it will always be a thrill.
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I bow in honour to your green thumb! We have had cool temperatures, and veggie things do not grow quickly for me up here in the great white north. Mind you, I have had my fair share of veggie gardens, and my aching chronic, degenerative back thanks me now!
Jenn, the nice thing about blogging is that one needn't show her failures: bolted greens, wilted tomatoes, bug-infested roots. My thumb's not as green as it appears!
Jain... with basil... the more you harvest the more it will branch...try to not let it flower...your tomatoes and pesto make me want a taste...
Well, I have no homegrown tomatoes, green beans, or basil for pesto, but only because I have so little sun space. And while I've not seen an eagle here, one apparently did hang around for several weeks (unknown to me…though why the local rumor mill failed me in this instance I can't say) less than a mile upstream, so I have a real hope that one day I'd have an eagle report of my own.
The river is still high and muddy from Saturday's rain, but going down. And…and you'll love this…the yard remains blessedly mosquito free, even with the rain. (I say it makes up for my lack of eagles and garden space.) I heard my first cicada this morning, though it got down in the 50s last night (tonight's prediction is 54) and hasn't made it to 80 degrees yet today.
Such a pity you don't live a bit closer, I wouldn't mind taking those green beans of your hands, I love them and they look really good! Or maybe swap them for some egg-plants, which I don't like but have a huge supply off :)
When you grow tired of Schezwan you could try a Thai sauce, makes even the yuckiest things taste yummy! Hurray for Asian spices :)
Wanda,
Yes, I'm watching out for flowers. For once, flowers are the enemy!
Scribe,
Oh, what it took to get a couple hours of sun here! Two seasons of whining about too much shade until my mate committed The Ultimate Act of Love and unexpectedly murdered a tree for me. (We've planted most of the ones here so they're our babies.)
We received 1/3" of rain this weekend; not enough to raise the river but plenty for new mosquito breeding grounds. No cicadas yet; it seems way early, but then, so does everything else.
Red Robin,
Yes, wouldn't it be lovely to live across the road from one another and swap veggies? I love Thai, too and will have to investigate sauces.
Lucky. Wish I had cucumbers growing in my garden.
Chris, the only luck is in finding plants at garden centers, and it's not that tough. They grow like weeds once they get started. I heart your blog.
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