Raspberreis! If the sun ever comes out, it'll be a bumper crop!
Mother Nature is… well, I don’t know if she’s terribly pleased with us this year. Everything is about a month behind, garden wise.
I went out early in the week and took these. Everything’s trying hard but would you really want to grow if all it did was rain and you never saw the sun?
Scarlett Runner Beans are as pretty as they are yummy.
Ironically enough, I was flipping through the Globe and Mail today and came across this article on how hospitals are starting to see the value in locally produced food, cooked on the premises, from scratch – as opposed to the reheated, processed, miserable food most in-patients receive. And it’s not as prohibitively expensive as it was once thought to be. I love how some hospitals are running farmer’s markets to try and offset the costs.
Breaking medical news folks: feeding hospital patients healthy, fresh food might actually be good for them.
You go little cucumber plant!
My dad spent 3 months in the hospital last year. Watching his meals come was such a depressing thing. I used to pack him up a little lunch box every day of fresh fruit and veggies from his garden. How can you compare a little tub of fresh from the vine cherry tomatoes to a tin of diced peaches canned in sugar water?
The tomatoes just started to flower this weekend.
There is nothing better than the snap of a fresh bean or the pop of a just picked pea pod. Even my dog knows this. He tries to pick the low hanging fruit himself. He’s a really smart dog though. haha
Little pea sprouts reaching for some netting and fresh green onions that are almost ready
What about running out first thing in the morning in your jammies with dewy grass getting your feet all wet while you grab a handful of fresh blueberries or raspberries to chuck on your cheerios in the morning?
Blueberries... they're just not blue yet
Fresh food is powerful. If you can, I urge you to grow something yourself. You can do amazing things with a pot on your deck! It makes you feel good to know it’s yours 🙂
Just a quick reminder about the Food Photography Contest I’m having where you can enter to win either an 5 in 1 Interfit reflector or a gift certificate to Craft and Vision! Make sure you enter – it’s a lot of fun!
You’re absolutely right Melissa. There is something magical abuot picking and eating fresh from your own garden. I don’t know if Edmonton has got the Vancouver fever but its been raining a lot here too, though the weekend is forecast to be sunny.
We planted out garden fresh this year, and its the first year we have been able to have our own garden, and I a, just so excited. We’ve already had one excellent radish crop, and the new ones are already up. The courgette’s flowering, and my herbs are thriving! I may have to make some fresh mint icecream just to tame the mint 🙂 The tomatoes are slow though, and apparently this has been a slow year gardenwise.
I cannot wait for next summer when the garden will be mature and we pick raspberries and cranberries from our own bushes. For this summer, we’re relying on our nice neighbour who has promised to share his apples and Bing cherries… it pays to make friends with neighbours 😉
Love the pictures as usual!!
Oh, and you wouldn’t belive the terrible food I was served when I had the misfortune to be in hospital for a week in the UK… they really need a Jamie Oliver to do what he did with school dinners.
I was thinking Jamie Oliver as I read the article! Good luck with the garden! You learn pretty quickly that you only ever need to plant one zucchini plant – they can easily overwhelm you and you’ll find yourself leaving them on your neighbours’ patios in the depths of night just to get rid of them (and I say this as somebody who LOVES zucchini!)
Raspberries are so easy – they come back every year and they spread really quickly so one cane can easily become 5 or 6 in a year or two. I get enough from mine to make two or three batches of jam and still give lots away and freeze some. I think I have 6 canes.
Gorgeous garden photos! I didn’t grow much of a garden this year, but my brother is a produce farmer and he shares. 🙂
oh that must be wonderful! lucky you 🙂
I’d love to have a garden like this!
yes, it’s easier when you have some extra space. Does Zurich have community gardens in the city where you can have a little 10×10 plot of your own?
My garden is crying for sun… we’re a couple of weeks late, too. My cucumbers look just like yours. But, I do have lots of garlic and onions that I can share!! 🙂
Fresh food *is* powerful–Amen to That!! The closer to alive it is when you put it in your mouth, the better for you it is. Seems so simple and plain, but try and tell that to the folks who like to put processed food in boxes and cans. Sheesh.
I hope your blueberries turn blue soon. The deer always get ours before we can. :/