Scenes From Our Homestead #3

Everything is growing strong on our homestead and there are so many new sights to share this week!

The hummingbirds are visiting our flowers and feeder every day.

I’ve been snacking on our pea plants to tide me over until the pods start to form. I love taking little snippets of the new leaves and tendrils and eating them raw…tastes like pea pods!

One of my favorite ‘milestones’ every season is the first meal of new potatoes. My Gram used to boil new potatoes in milk with butter, salt and pepper and freshly shelled peas…an old fashioned favorite.

I haven’t bought any greens from the store in quite some time. I’m loving all the fresh green veggies from our garden.

Before long we’ll have beet greens to cook up with a touch of vinegar for a side dish…yum!

Our next batch of lettuce will be ready to thin soon. The first planting is still going strong.

I’m enjoying all the fresh herbs from our garden. I didn’t think the thyme made it through the winter, but it has recovered and is going strong now.

I want to make sauerkraut in the crock my parents gave me this summer. Look at that lovely little cabbage 🙂

The perennial onions are having ‘babies’…easiest birth on a homestead. I’ll plant lots of these little guys out for green onions all summer long.

My seeds from Mary’s Heirloom Seeds are going strong! The Five Color Silverbeet (also known as Swiss Chard) is all sprouted and I’ve made an initial thinning. Can’t wait to make Charduni!

These purple podded bean plants from Mary’s Heirloom Seeds are much prettier than the other bean plants in my garden. I love the color of purple beans, so it will be a treat to start picking them this summer!

I still have work to do! I have peppers and eggplants to put in. The last two beds are in the works. When the soil dries out again I’ll have to finish that up so I can plant my heat lovers. There are a few little things to do here and there…always some weeding to do, but it’s so nice to have most of the garden planted and growing.

And I’m way beyond excited that my strawberry patch is loaded with little green berries. I just picked 3 berries that ripened really early. These are Earliglow plants and they are a favorite variety in my garden. In fact, the others didn’t make it through the first year and now this is the only kind left.

That’s ok…as long as we have fresh strawberries and some for jam and freezing…I’m fine with only one variety…for now. 🙂

 

Happy Homesteading! I hope your garden is growing strong too! Do you have any strawberries in your garden?

 

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