here's a flower arrangement made by God - these are all wildflowers that just grow on our land with no help from us. sorry the pic is so dark - the wildflowers are beautiful!
and here is a flower arrangement made by kymber with the help of God - these flowers all came from seeds i planted.
and here they are together acting as beautiful accoutrements to our table.
can i get a high five for this daily harvest?
thank you. thank you very much. it was an honour just to be nominated. that's a big beef, 2 scotias, and 3 cherry tomatoes. that's a green pepper, some sweet italian peppers, and some hot wax. there's sorrel, basil, coriander and parsely. green onions and 2 red onions. and kids - yes - that is a corn!!!
jambaloney's never-ending jar of pickled peppers was topped up...i removed the old grape leaves and added new ones, plus stirred it all around so that the older peppers mix with the new.
miso soup for supper? yer darn tootins'. especially if your miso starts off with homemade veg broth, dulse, nori, tofu, mushrooms and green pepper.
the radish kimchi on the side doesn't hurt either!
hey - do you know what happens if you let your garlic scapes go to flower? they make seeds. called bulbils.
i cut all mine off so that for the next month the garlic bulb will focus on growth, and the bulbils are at the exact right time for drying. here's a pic of them up close.
each of those tiny bulbils will grow into a garlic bulb...it might take 5 years but they'll do it. and that's why we save them. for geurilla gardening.
told ya it's been overcast and cloudy - but the air is soooo fresh!
zucchini fritters and fresh blackberries for breakfast.
made up some more veg chow and some more dill pickles.
this is one of the harvests of potatoes that jambaloney brought in. we harvest them as we need them and then wait for our first hard frost (usually december) before we harvest the rest.
here's another load that he harvested to hopefully get us through the next month - we eat a LOT of potatoes!
jambaloney wanted veg curry and that's what he got!
then we made chips with our potatoes.
he had some of his plain, some with vinegar, some with gravy and some with hot sauce (top plate). i, of course, had poutine! deelish!
well, i'm back online, hate the new set-up, hate my new inbox, hate the layout of stuff - pretty much hate it all. but, and this is huge, my blogger is still the exact same and when i checked a few of your blogs out just to see if everything was the same - it is! so i'll get by...and be by to your blogs in a bit!
sending love!
Nothing better than home grown taters!
ReplyDeleteMike - you and me both know it! thanks for dropping by! xox
DeleteIt always takes me time to accept my new computer but in time, I always like it better than the last with the exception of the one I had that came with Microsoft Vista.
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DeleteWell, we LOVE it that you are back in blogland! As usual, your food (both harvest and prepared) is amazing. I am still aiming to get me a big plate of poutine... xxx
ReplyDeleteSusan - i am back with a vengeance - i hate this new set-up! the harvests these days are wonderful and we are are so grateful! you have to get to that restaurant that sells the poutine or you need to make it yourself. send me an email if you want detailed instructions! xoxoxoxo
DeleteOh Kymber...your poutine looks great!!! :) So glad you can enjoy some. All of your harvest deserves a high five :) (If you're a Seinfeld fan, think of David Puddy) ;)...so...tell me. When you harvest your potatoes after the first hard frost, I'm assuming the plants have all yellowed and died...you still keep them in the dirt? I only ask because I read it's time to harvest them when the plants die off...so that's when I harvested mine and I did notice some tiny taters mixed with the big ones.
ReplyDeleteYOUR poutine looked great - especially with those home-made curds! but i agree - there has to be a squeak on a proper curd eh? as for potatoes...harvest what you need as you need. the plants will turn yellow, then brown, but the roots (bulbs, potatoes) will keep growing even if the top part of the plant is dead. that's why we leave our major harvest until first full frost. the bulbs (potatoes) will still keep growing after the plants have died. and leaving them be until you HAVE to harvest them makes for more time to harvest the other things.
Deletesave your smallest potatoes in a box with a towel over them in a dark closet or your basement and you can cut those in half and use them for next year's potatoes. let me know if you want more info! xoxox
Thanks Kymber :) One last thing...we watch old reruns of This Old House and Ask This Old House - on You Tube...they're so awesome...on one episode, a potato farmer suggested cutting the plants down to the earth when they get yellow and dry. For them it was to help with the machines picking up the potatoes, but I wonder if you guys do that too or just leave the plants as is? Next spring I'm going to plant a lot more and wait until November/December to harvest the bulk of them. Alex and I have to figure out some kind of root cellar though. Our basement had mice one year and it gets really humid...not sure we have the right set up in this rental.
DeleteRain - we let the tops of our potatoes go yellow, brown and die. the majority of them will look like that until december when we do a full harvest. since august we have only been harvesting as we need - jam got a bunch out so that he can spend time on the driveway. since august he has emptied 8 tires - with us eating potatoes almost every day and sometimes twice a day, and we still have 32 more tires to harvest. that should bring us around to 200lbs of potatoes based on previous years' harvests and that usually can take us until april. we save all of the smallest potatoes for seed for the following year. these potatoes are 5th generation and get better every year. we find that the longer we leave them in the ground the bigger they get.
Deleteif your basement has mice and is humid, store your box of seed potatoes in a box with a towel over it in a closet in the driest part of your house. it will work! xoxox
Got it! :) Thank you my fellow wine-sipping, porch-rocking knitting sister! Lol :)
Deletebahahah! did i tell you we are trying to make our own wine this year? i'll be on wine-making kick like you are on your cheese-making kick! xoxox
DeleteI really think that's wonderful! I want to hear all about it!!
DeleteIt all looks very nice Kymber. I have not gotten bulbils in years.
ReplyDeleteTB - do you cut your scapes? if so, you won't get bulbils. i only cut a few scapes so that we can have a meal or 2 with scapes and then let the rest go to flower. that's how i get my bulbils. xox
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