The garden, or what was left in it, fared pretty well over the winter. The favas are tall and producing well. I haven't harvested yet, but any day now. The leeks are too gorgeous to pull. The flowers are so pretty that I...just...can't...pick. I've purchased and planted lots of seedlings. Photos to follow. My garden is inundated with sow bugs. Everything I read says that they don't harm your garden, but my brand new summer squash was attacked. I say it was their doing and after cruising the internet found that they hate cayenne and oil so into the kitchen I go to create my Sow Bug Death Spray. I'll let you know how it goes.
sage
leek flower bud
fava pods
tall fava plants
let me know when you're picking favas - I'll pick my second round and contribute to your haul. My first pick LOOKED like a lot, but once I got through those fuzzy sweatshirts, and peeled them out of their outer shells, I had about a cup - 1 cup! - of beans. Painful.
ReplyDeleteyour sage looks lovely. I have two kinds, one apparently more 'culinary' then the other - bigger rounder leaves like what you have here. (although the other species seems just as thriving, but leaves are slimmer and longer)
ReplyDeleteI want to be "slimmer and longer" instead of "bigger and rounder"!
ReplyDeletehear hear! but a small consolation is that we, too, are 'more culinary' than most! ;)
ReplyDeletesee you at backyard BBQ on Saturday? weather better cooperate! [shaking fist at sky]