Sunday, September 19, 2010

and then the rains came...

no indian summer for us here in the great pnw! we are launching straight into a long wet "wall" "finter"? what should we call it?

we had a freak gorgeous day yesterday and i spent the majority of it out in the garden cleaning up and moving some things around, mulching and pruning. i know it was a good day when i go to take a shower and a river of mud flows down toward the drain!

i think that the garden is liking the loooooooong wet drink of water. the ground is soaked & everything is GREEN.

i harvested all the tomatoes, some ripe, mostly green from the purple calabash and pulled it out. i harvested one last handfull of beans and pulled out all but 2 of the green beans. we are still rolling in the cucumbers! the zukes are still producing! i am fixing to start sowing some winter veggies: brocoli raab, kale, maybe radishes...

if there were 48 hours in the day i would like to make some pickled blueberries (i bought too many at the farmer's market last week, green tomato relish, and another batch of cucumber pickles!

3 comments:

Blackbird Experience said...

picked blueberries? please explain!

rachel said...

dude, pickled blueberries! well we haven't actually tried them yet, but the recipe says, they are a good alternative to cranberry sauce. we had leftover "brine" that we used to glaze some porkchops & that was GOOD. but y'all don't eat meat so....

Blackbird Experience said...

I meant pickled! we don't eat meat, but we DO eat!