Vegetables cooked within an hour of being picked.
Roasted new yellow potatoes, red onions, and Egyptian walking onions, with olive oil and fresh rosemary.
Roasted garlic and rosemary chicken, with whole garlic bulbs.
Fresh steamed snow peas.
Home canned sweet pickles.
Yum. Wish you were here!
Normally, you should wait a couple of days before cooking newly dug potatoes, but one of our potato beds got a blight. The tubers won’t keep. So into the oven they go!
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Wish I were there, too. Wish you catered!
And I mean to get around to giving everyone a report on the Weedguard product which I will never again do without. It’s so easy to use, and really does the job. Cuts down on soil based diseases and on my labor. Now I can really enjoy my garden.
Last year’s tomatoes were hammered by a soil based fungus. This year, they show no sign of disease, even with the heavy rains. The weedguard stops soil from splashing onto the leaves. I’ve also meticulously pruned the tomatoes, and I’ve got gorgeous, perfect plants.
Well, that certainly beats the ham sandwich I’m going to be having for dinner!
Can you have the potatoes canned as well for future usage?
I don’t know if I’d risk it, and I didn’t dig enough to make it worthwhile. These were last year’s seed potatoes, and I was pretty sure they’d end up getting sick, so we were lucky to get anything out of the box. Our other boxes are planted in fresh soil with treated, commercially purchased seed potatoes, and the plants look very healthy.
I hate it when the root veggies get sick, because you have to leave off planting in the area for years.
You make me drool!
Any beets planted?
Also, as much as the spread makes me drool, that Cola vs. Pepsi thing you have on the table makes me giggle.
I’m the only big beet eater in the family, so no beets. There’s a farm up the road who makes the best pickled beets, and I can eat a jar in one sitting.
Coke vs Pepsi is the battle that will not die.
Looks awesome!
I have not forgotten about the promise of citrus. Trying to figure out how to ship it in such a way that it neither goes bad nor runs afoul of whatever agency inspects mail, looking for fruit crossing state borders.
Aw, that’s so nice! Don’t kill yourself, though, I know some states have very funky export laws. I can ship dried lavender, but not fresh. Go figure.
The first couple of years in our house, we used our raised beds without even really mulching. That was OK, but adding mulch helped a lot. Last year, I added a weedguard system and a soaker hose on a timer, but didn’t figure out until late August that I also needed to put mulch/clippings on *top* of the weedguard to block out the sunlight from getting to the weeds underneath. This year, I enthusiastically put all the mulch down as soon as I got it, then had to dig it up a month or so later to put the weedguard and soaker hose system in. I have ambitions to actually get everything done in order one of these Springs.
That spread looks absolutely yummy! And it’s making me hungry. The fact that I haven’t eaten yet today may have something to do with it. And my options are a pre-made salad or soup.
*sigh*
The weedguard you are talking about, Tom, is not what we use on our plants. You’re using a kill mulch weed blocker. Weedguard is a compostable paper mulch. It degrades during the year and you can plow it under. We do not put clippings or anything on top, we just punch holes in it and plant in the holes. Here is their website:
http://www.weedguardplus.com/
It also comes with fertilizer in the paper.