More August Harvest

Not all the harvest gets pictured. I have been sharing a lot with friends lately. Here are few pictures that do get camera captured.

Val Papdi (Lima beans), French beans, cucumber and beets

Methi

Mustard greens

Zucchini, Lemon Cucumber, Lima bean pods and French beans

Cucumbers, Spaghetti Squash, Roma tomatoes, more beans…

Harvested the hybrid squash. This one grew on Patty Pan squash plant, it has tougher skin, a likely winter squash. I have been many summer patty pans from the same plant.. Interesting!

Zucchinis and lemon cuk

I have been making a lot of green juice lately. Mix in a peeled orange, lots of kale leaves and a little ginger. Yum!

Blue Kale, Patty Pan Squash and a delicata squash. I accidently pulled this unripe squash when tidying up the vines. It’ll be a good experiment to ripen this indoors.

August 2015 – This is how garden grows

Beans in beds

(L to R) Green beans, more beans, green sorrel and kale

Tomatoes, taking their sweet time to ripen. Maybe time to stop the watering.

Spaghetti Squash peeking through

Kale in abundance

Lots of cucumber vines, not producing fruits though…

Another Spaghetti Squash

Some hybrid winter squash growing on patty pan bush. I have harvested patty pan summer fruits from this plant. Wondering if this is summer or winter squash? Surprise Surprise…

Beets, Chard and Cuke

Tomato jungle.. not enough fruits

Clockwise from top: 2 Fenugreek buckets, mustard, more methi and mustard greens

More August harvest

Green beans, baby pumpkin and introducing val papdi (lima bean pods)

More beans, peas, zuchhini, cuke, mugori, potatoes and basil

More of potatoes and beans

Lima bean pods (van papdi), first tomato of the season and chard to freeze for later use

Kale and green sorrel

Yummy green juice : Kale + orange + ginger

August 2015 harvest

Chard

It’s bumper harvest time.

I picked lots of basil, oregano and rosemary. Made into 2 types of pesto – Basil pesto and herb pesto.

I am not great at taking glamor harvest shots. Harvest includes kale, lots of chard, beans, snap peas, cucumber and some baby lettuce

I let this grow tooo big! Yellow Patty pan squash, cucumber, a single mugori (radish pods) and beans

July 2015: this is how garden grows

Garden bed 1: (L to R) Green beans- provider, cilantro, second row of beans and green sorrel

Garden Bed 2: (L to R) Snow Peas, Chard, beets and beans. Some serious evidence of low germination percentage

Garden Bed 3: (L to R) Winter squash, kale, cabbage, baby lettuce, beans, zucchini and cucumbers

Garden Bed 4: ( L to R) Spinach, Chard, beets and cucumbers

Garden Bed 5: (L to R) Snap peas, spinach, cucumbers and second row of spinach

Garden Bed 6: ( L to R) Tomatoes, volunteer potato plant and pumpkin

June 2015: More greens

More spring greens… Lots of sorrel, onions, chard and beets

Masala Idli with Chard

May 2015: Greens

Overwintered green onions are ready for harvest

Arugula

Green Sorrel

I am not doing justice to all the fruits of vegetables being harvested, I’m not taking many pictures. Oh well…

March 2015: Harvest update

March has brought warm temperatures to the region, some of the dormant veggies are showing signs of life. I ventured into the grim garden and managed to pick few veggies.

Picked few green onion tops, which were used promptly to top curries

Chives are coming in full force

Baked potatoes topped with fresh chives.. my kid is super happy today

Asian noodles topped with generous garnish of chives

Season’s first harvest of kale!

January 2015, week 4 – First Harvest

Happy New Year to all my readers!

Chives growing by the fence

Weather has been fun so far and I have been away most of the year. I am back to Northwest. For the first time this year, I ventured into the mossy soggy garden. To my surprise, I found overwintered green onions and my trusty chives. I am so happy to harvest a bunch of spring onions and generous snips of chives. All were promptly used as garnish on Uttapa I was making for breakfast.

Here is the close-up of trusty chives. Being Perennial, these come up in winter every year.

Generous Snips of chives are my first harvest of the year! Chives got a good haircut.

January Harvest:
Spring Onion: 4-5 springs
Chives: a generous bunch for garnish

What did do with all these zucchinis?

Shredded zucchini, that got frozen later..

What did do with all these zucchinis? of course, saved it!

September 2014 – the garden keeps giving

Spaghetti Squash, Yellow summer squash, acorn squashes, tomatoes, lemon cucumbers, kabocha squash, lots of beans and zuk

Last of the tomatoes of the season

Lemon cuks.. yum

beans are in full force! beans, tomatoes, lemon cuks and summer squash

More tomatoes, beans and zuks

August 2014 Harvest – Summer produce

Sharing Summer abundance…

More summer squash, tomatoes in various stages of ripening, muncher and lemon cucumber and a lonely white bean

More tomatoes and couple of zuchhinis

Red potatoes and lemon cucumbers … ah these are so tasty

Lemon Cucumbers

Zucchinis are in abundance this time of the year

Just tomatoes..

Fall is approaching fast…

Beans Galore…

It’s August and I have been picking beans, a LOT of beans… All of this was harvested in the span of 8-10 days.

Plate full harvest of shelling peas, some spinach, green beans and few blueberries

More shelling peas, green beans, 2 jalapeno peppers, blueberries and Yellow pear tomatoes

I continue to harvest beans… more beans, peas, a single radish and an early girl tomato

More beans, tomatoes and rosemary spring…

and here’s the bean patch

August Harvest – I

 

August is prime month for reaping garden goodies. I am able to pick something every other day.

Harvested green zucchinis, peas, green beans (blue lake bush) and sungold tomatoes.

 

More harvest of red potatoes, snap peas and few green sungolds.

August Harvest – II

August Harvest continues…
Picked up a big size zucchini and a small one that may have not been pollinated. There are couple of early girls and sweet 100s.

Mid July garden harvest

Garden sowing was late this year, I am fortunate that garden responded back quick.

Blueberries were picked along with 2 early jalapeno peppers.

First full basket of the year: Green beans, lots of shelling peas, small tomatoes (first of the season) and green sorrel.

July flowers from the garden

Warm July is shining, this flower arrangement is garden roses, hydrangea, tree lilacs and ferns.

Goat’s beard

I wonder many times why this weedy plant even occupies primo spot of my garden, I see it all over the town wild in the wetlands. It’s Goat’s beard, I cut it down to the roots every year but it comes back strong.

Well, sometimes I get to arrange pretty flowers it produces in late June.

Mid June garden update

Blueberry bush is loaded with fruit

Early Girls are bearing first tomatoes of the season.

Container potatoes are poking out of the ground

I acquired yellow raspberry plant last year, happy to see it bearing fruits.

Methi in abundance

Cooling off with rosemary lemon water. I hacked my rosemary bush this year, plan to dry out excess leaves.

Berry harvest continues…

June blooms

Rose vines over tree lilacs