No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Plenty of strawberries in the berry patch... unfortunately we're not the ones enjoying them. Word spread fast through the squirrel community that peanuts were being handed out in this yard. Unfortunately the little varmints discovered the dessert buffet as well.

I'm now picking berries before they are fully vine-ripened as a defensive measure. Thankfully the banditos are not into spinach and I have a sink full for supper. 

The lesson every gardener has surely learned - invite Sciuridae mammalia into your garden and they will uproot your seedlings, eat your harvest and play on your guilt with their sad little doe-eyes.

How Green is My Garden

The unpredictable weather this season has most gardeners dancing the quickstep, and I find myself doing a jig right along. There are flowers on all of my potatoes already. Last season they didn't appear until July.

Russian Blue Potatoes and Lettuces

Harvesting the perishables has begun with a passion. An unexpected heat spell has the spinach and arugula bolting already. Nothing bolted last season, until July. But I adore spinach, so who's complaining.

Organic Spinach

I've always had trouble growing spinach until this year when I ignored the directions on the seed packets and just scattered the seeds on top of the soil.  Now I have spinach galore.  Spinach seeds need a good dose of light to germinate, so it's a curiosity that seed packets always instruct you to cover them.

Organic lettuces

It's fabulous to dig into the fresh and abundant salad greens teaming with nutrients again. The lettuces are so flavorful they don't need anything more than a splash of olive oil and red wine vinegar as dressing.

If anyone has a recipe that uses sage flowers please hook me up, as my sage bushes are both flowering up a storm. Cheers!