Blueberries

I always associate blueberries with the 4th of July. We are picking beautiful, plump blueberries today! The bushes are loaded. It's going to be a good year in the berry patch.

Mediterranean Breakfast

My friend Bess introduced me to this beautiful and satisfying menu that she learned to eat for breakfast while traveling in Turkey. I think it's a great way to start the day, especially during the summer when the cucumbers and tomatoes are at their peak!

hard boiled egg, kalamata olives, cucumbers, tomatoes

Berries

We're still picking black raspberries and are enjoying a few red wineberries that got mixed in with the raspberry canes in the new beds Rouse created last fall. Very soon, the blueberries will be ripe!

Green Bean Season Begins

The bush beans are ready to pick!

Two varieties: Maxibel haricot vert and Roma II. Both delicious!

New Potatoes

We have an out-of-town friend coming for dinner tonight. Wouldn't some new potatoes be just the thing? My first reach under the pile of leaves came up with a beautiful red-skinned chieftain spud! Looks like the beginning of a proper feast!

Support in the Garden

The pole beans are starting to shoot up... time to get the string trellis in place. Don't want those long vines to get all tangled up on the ground. While I'm at it, why not create a trellising system for the cucumbers, too? Providing vertical support for the vines will allow the fruit to hang down, making for easy picking of nicely formed cukes.

Speaking of support, the pepper plants could use some. I use "tomato cages" to keep pepper plants upright and to support the heavy developing fruit. Hmmm ... the eggplants would benefit from such support, too. Luckily, I have plenty of cages to go around!

Sweet Potato Slips

My friend, Betsy, brought me some sweet potato slips from Country Farm and Home, our local feed and seed store. I failed to get my order in on time  :-( but Betsy was able to grab me a few from the "extras" pile. No room for procrastination now ... Rouse and I got them right into the ground!

Raspberries

The black raspberries are typically ripening by Memorial Day weekend. Our new raspberry beds are right on time! Beautiful black raspberries ready for the picking.