Last night around 8 pm Lucy the Puggle Dog and I wandered out to the garden to harvest a few things. 8 o’clock! Can you believe it? I LOVE this time of year. I don’t know about you, but my favorite time to garden in the summertime is either really early {when the birds are all chirping and it’s still a wee bit chilly} or right before bedtime after all the dinner dishes are done.
Even though I’ve kind of taken the year off of gardening {okay, by that I mean I’m not trying to grow a TON of vegetables} I’ve still fallen behind on my planting a bit.
I don’t know how it happened, but I totally forgot to plant our zucchini seeds in early may.
Oh well. I guess this just means they’ll germinate faster, right? 😉
After planting 6 sets of zucchini seeds, we harvested the first batch of snow peas. And yes, it’s safe to say they didn’t make it in to the house and into the stir fry pan. Ha!
Maybe tomorrows harvest will.
And take a look at these beauties. Fresh, homegrown strawberries. Does it get any better than that?
They didn’t make it into the house either. 😉
Ahh June. I love you.
~Mavis
Holly says
We just harvested about 50 lbs of radishes….any ideas on what to do with them all??? Do you have any canning/freezing suggestions for long-term storage?
Mavis Butterfield says
Gaaa! What in the world are you going to do with 50 pounds???? Holy cannoli’s. My vote is to share or sell some of them Holly.
Carla says
Holly, do a Google search on “How to preserve radishes.” Lots of sites and ways popped up. The first two sites that came up for me were:
http://growitcookitcanit.com/2012/04/22/how-to-preserve-radishes/
http://www.radishgarden.com/preservation.php
Enjoy!
Brian says
Pickle them! Pickled radishes are great on tacos and alongside thick slabs of meat! Hope you make something tasty 🙂
Mavis says
Pickled radishes on tacos? I’ll have to try that.
Kristina says
You can pickle them: http://chicagoist.com/2013/07/01/you_can_pickle_that_radishes.php#photo-1
Carla says
I also found this site which has recipes for drying, cooking, baking, and juicing radishes!
http://www.livestrong.com/article/476123-how-to-dry-radishes/
Teresa Cline says
they are wonderful pickled
Vicki says
My favorite time to garden was as soon as the sun rose – sometimes as early as 5:00 in mid-summer (I lived in NW Indiana at the time). My second favorite time was right after work – around 6:00 in the evening. And I’d graze the whole time – a few cherry tomatoes, some baby cucumbers, some beans and strawberries. I wouldn’t need to cook dinner on those nights. And I miss them terribly! One of these days I’ll have another garden – until then, I’ll enjoy reading about yours.