Swiss Chard takes the gold this year. It may be our favorite cool season crop. It just feels like the healthiest thing you can eat, and it tastes good too! We like it best sauteed in olive oil with some garlic, pine nuts, and parmesan cheese. It cooks down a lot, like spinach. Did I mention how easy it is to grow? And look at those colors! I like the rainbow / neon light varieties and even planted some with my flowers in containers this year.
Spinach Rows
Lu keeps an eye on our early beds.
First year for strawberries! with a few mulberries from the neighborhood. I added some blackberries to try out the pioneer woman's cobbler recipe. Very good! It's more like a coffee cake than traditional cobbler.
And, first year for radishes...
Yummy radish dip with cream cheese and green onion- so easy, just mix up these ingredients in a food processor.
... and with some fresh lettuce from our garden! Not sure what else to do with radishes?
The chef's specialty: anything in a skillet with some garlic...
or some kind of meat grease.
What's Lulu always grinning about?
Sugar snap and snow peas! So pretty on the vine and so tasty right off the vine.
Mary and Jeremy's red leaf lettuce. Tempting.
The real bloomin' onion
AL said she carried some of these as a bridesmaid? They are pretty.
Will be harvesting our beets soon!
Lots more to come from Ruby's Victory Garden! You can see some of it's history here.
2 comments:
Radish butter sandwiches with sea salt are one of our favorite spring meals. :)
mmm.. I want a garden! :)
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