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My Kitchen Garden

8/3/2013

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     I've been visiting family down on the farm where internet connections aren't always available to me.  I am on briefly this morning and thought I'd show some photos of my kitchen garden I took a couple of weeks ago. 

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     I am still disappointed with the amount of produce I've been able to harvest this summer.  Tomatoes?  The plants are loaded with large, green tomatoes.  I have picked one small, red tomato so far and I haven't even eaten it!  I left it behind on my kitchen counter.

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     Cabbage, as usual, are quite abundant.  The purple cabbage I planted in the raised beds filled with new soil, are mammoth.  I see cabbage soup, stuffed cabbage, cabbage salads... etc., etc... in my future.  I like cabbage (to a point).

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     It's been a summer of beets, jalapeños, green beans, and red onions.  I expect to find eggplant and zucchini when I return, and that's only if the squirrels haven't eaten them.  They seem to be broadening their palate.  I don't remember, ever, competing with squirrels for such a wide range of vegetables.  It started several years ago with tomatoes, but they have now moved on to a more diverse diet.

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     My father-in-law has two large peach trees on his farm and no one has been picking them!  I plan to go out early tomorrow morning, before we head back, and pluck as many as I can off the branches.  My daughter is asking for peach cobbler.  I'd prefer a peach, double-crust pie; maybe peach scones and peach ice cream.  There are definitely enough peaches on those trees for all of those, and more.  Can't wait to be back in my kitchen!


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Diane Smith
8/4/2013 02:38:49 am

Beautiful pics. Your tomato crop is about the same as mine...three cherry tomatoes. I've never known squirrels to be a problem here, but have blamed the rabbits and the cats for 'digging' when plants are small. We have a friendly 'Bambi' biting my flowers in posy pouches on the field fence and leaving the flowers on the ground. Do you preserve any of the produce? I just started taking the time to do that a few years ago and love it...salsa, tomato sauce, pickles,and yellow dill beans the 'Amana' way, corn relish. Hope to see you this fall at the Artist Guild show. Diane

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Eileen
8/8/2013 03:12:06 am

Hi Diane --
I should be preserving more than I do from my garden. I always make tomato sauce, and freeze a lot of rhubarb. But everything else, we seem to eat when picked.

I'll be at the artist opening in Amana the 19th!

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