AMAZING AMOUNTS OF FOOD

May, 2009

 

STARTING THE MONTH OFF WITH PLENTY

 

Before we went on vacation, Bob pulled fistfulls of beets and armloads of kale from the garden.  We pickled the beets and blanched the kale and froze it for next winter. 

 

LETTUCE BE GRATEFUL

 

Big salads are something we eat at least twice a day.  With pickled beets, deep fried tempeh bacon and toasted home baked bread.

 

METAMORPHOSIS

 

These colorful caterpillars turned our magnificent parsley plant into black swallowtail butterflies.

 

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER THREE HEADS OF LETTUCE

 

Like we said, we ate big salads twice or three times a day for most of the month.

 

WHEAT AND PEAS

   

Two plants that reach for the stars.  The wheat fields of the central plains made our country strong.  It's a wonder that wheat didn't make it as the National Food.  Interestingly, today many Americans are wary of ingesting products high in either carbohydrates or gluten.

 

ENDING THE MONTH WITH MORE THAN ENOUGH

After we returned from our trip north, we discovered amazing growth in our container gardens.  The lettuce was bursting, the peas had grown three feet taller.

 

HOPS AND PEAS

 

Totally over the top!

 

WHEAT, LETTUCE, POPPIES, AND TOMATOES

 

On the left: wheat, lettuce and poppies.  On the right tomatoes.  We had a wet spring and everything is happily growing away.

 

POPPIES!

 

After seeing these strange pods manifest themselves, we realized they must have been the inspiration for the despicable man-eating plant in  "Little Shop of Horrors."

 

FROM THE COMPOST PILE

Bob dumped a load of our home made compost into this spot and it sprouted dozens of tomatoes, some sunflowers and squash.

 

BEYOND OUR GARDEN

 

Bob taught a workshop on square foot gardening and the class built this nifty garden at Central Carolina Community College.  We get produce from outside our garden in the form of three CSA shares.  This is an example of two shares from two different farms.

 

GARDENIAS AND MUSHROOMS

 

Our gardenia was overwhelmed with blooms and mushrooms were popping out of the lawn.  What a great feeling to come home and find all of this bounty within our reach.  What a great feeling not have to drive out to the grocery store for produce that shipped from far away. (We didn't eat these particular mushrooms.)

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