Vegetables from our garden
August 10th, 2008 | Written by jfolkmann | Topic: garden
Our garden has turned out to be a bit finicky. Most of the vegetables in the front bit of the garden have already met their untimely death, however the back bit (where the water probably drains) is a jungle.
Carrots:
Being a little inexperienced in the ways of good gardening we didn’t thin out the carrots enough and so they’re busy growing around each other. This makes for some interesting shapes and sizes…but they still taste delicious. The ground is so hard now that it’s almost impossible to pull them out, next year I’ll thin them out even more I guess.
Beets:
Our beets are loving the soil and as you can see by the picture growing very well.
Shallots & garlic:
These guys aren’t doing so well, they taste great (really sharp) but ever since the hail storm they haven’t been quite right. I’m not expecting much this year.
Onions:
We haven’t pulled any yet, but some of them look pretty good. They also sustained some hail damage a few weeks ago. We’ll wait and see.
Potatoes:
These are looking great. We just took a hill this evening and they look great. Can’t wait to tuck in!
Last night we put the beets right on the grill, and we put the carrots in a tin foil bag with the garlic and shallots with a bit of butter. Divine! I’m so happy we decided to plant a garden, there is nothing quite like growing your own food.
