Monthly Archives: August 2008

Here are the cutest taste testers! The kids were so cute, running around tasting all the different leaves. The lettuces, the kale, the beet and kohlrabi greens, Aidan even picked some dandelion leaves from the grass! It’s funny because if I had put all those greens on the table, they wouldn’t have eaten them, but picking them for themselves, it all tasted wonderful to them!

Here’s baby Cait, she found some beet greens and was shoving them in her mouth. What a cute little girl!

Look at our corn, hasn’t it grown?! Here’s Guenna, taking care of the corn :)

Golden and red beets, I discovered why the beets were so pale after I cooked them, they are not red all the way through. They have red and white stripes and almost look like large radishes, if they didn’t taste like beets I would have thought them to be radishes! The golden beets had a lovely yellow/orange color when cooked. The kohlrabi was delicious! Brings back great memories of eating kohlrabi at my Grandma and Grandpa Nash’s house when I was a child. :)

Here are my sweet little yellow cherry tomatoes, they are doing really well and there are tons of tomatoes on this particular plant. The plant right next to it doesn’t seem to be doing as well, I have yet to see anything other than flowers, we’ll have to wait and see. The lettuce has done really well, we had several yummy salads and have shared some with the ladies at church.

The carrots are doing well, we have several little boxes of them and I started some a few weeks after these so they will last us a little longer. And here you can see that Cait is trying out the carrot greens :)

My pumpkins are doing really well, here Cait thinks that one is ready for picking :) And the picture to the right is my cilantro gone to seed. I’m hoping to harvest some seed, as you can see I will have plenty if my little experiment works!

My yellow cucumber plant on the left, doing really well. Behind it is a brocoli plant, I wish I had planted more of, oh well, next year :) I didn’t know how big it ( the cucumber plant) would get so I only had one plant. Next year I will plant more because we love cucumbers, I think I will plant a whole box of them. They had quite a struggle at the get go and I lost one of my starts due to the cold weather and consistent heavy rains when I first planted, but this plant recovered and we are finally getting those cute yellow lemon cucumbers. Yum! And aren’t those kids just the cutest? :)

I planted two types of kale this year. The one on the left is an Italian kale with a nice flavor, the variation to the right is called curly kale and is the kind you can usually find in the stores. I think I prefer the Italian, it’s got a little less bite to it. Both are good though, and the kids love eating them both raw right off the plant!

Well, that’s it for now. Just doing a little catching up on the garden. We have really had fun as a family, watching our garden grow. Aidan told me the other day that he thinks we should plant some stuff in their dirt pile so they would have some stuff to eat while they are playing in the dirt. Somehow I have a feeling though that it just wouldn’t do that well! :)