June 8 Garden Snapshot
Diversity is starting to
pick up in our fresh garden produce. Sunday, we ate the first
dozen red raspberries along with a bowl of shelling peas. The
strawberries are hitting the end of their season, as is the lettuce and
spinach, but greens and snow peas and shiitakes are still barreling
along. Meanwhile, our squashes and green beans all show signs of
blooms.
Mark and I have an interesting philosophy on freshness of food. I
believe in picking fruits and vegetables moments before we pop them in
our mouths, and we've found that many of them taste just as good or
better raw. There's nothing quite like fresh shelling peas
slipped out of the pod with your teeth.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Peas, peas, peas! I wonder if you planted yours too late? They need to go in early because once it really gets hot, they're toast.
That said, some varieties just do better than others. Our Mammoth Melting Sugar snow peas are amazing --- they're already nearly out of my reach. Next week I may need a stepladder to pick them!
Raw okra straight from the garden is my favorite vegetable (possibly favorite food) in the whole world! Most of it gets eaten on the way to the house. Most of our okra seed rotted in the ground (we think) since it rained for about 2 weeks straight after we put it in. The neighbors all replanted theirs but no one told us
We have a couple dozen plants, hopefully enough for next year's seed.
We ate the first 30 or 40 blackberries (I think, maybe some other kind of black berry) tonight. I ate a few myself and divvied the rest among my kids. They were thrilled