Friday, August 5, 2011

Gardening is good

This here is Chickweed and has very many uses as explained in previous posts I've given.

These beauties we had to put a net around after they were attacked by something... I think it was birds. We have two peach trees and they had eaten a hole in every peach on the other tree and so we didn't take our chances with the other one... we put the net up.
Cinnamon Basil smells just like cinnamon mmmmhmmm.
Then there's the grapes that are almost ready to pick.
Pomegranates almost ready and we have tons this time around. Last year they didn't survive the storm and wind and had all fallen off too early to eat. We got to eat one pomegranate from our tree, so I'm hoping these are going to stay on the tree until I can pick them.

Lime tree and we've used it and there's one left if you look close its in the bottom right of the tree.
This hasn't flowered yet but its the herb coneflower/ echinacea and its used for tea and other things I plan to make tea out of it, but this just doesn't look like any of the pictures of it so we'll see if its what we think.

Coriander, which is cilantro seeds are drying here from my garden.
The main garden L to R: Cucumber tower, zucchini, onions, peppers, tomatoes, collard greens, and beets

We added this worm tower, all it is is a PVC pipe that is 2/3rds underground and we drilled holes in it for the worms to get into and...
All we do is throw our compost in like you see here and the worms do the rest!
This is the top of an onion and these little babies are going to planted to make more onions!


Thursday, August 4, 2011

Homemade and Homegrown salsa!


This salsa is completely from what we have in our garden! Here we have our tomatoes and parsley, basil, cilantro, peppers.















These are a new favorite of mine. Its my first time growing these pear tomatoes and they are so yummy and are now going into the salsa.













Here we have garlic, peppers, tomatoes, pear tomatoes, and anaheim chilies.


















Here's my sweetheart putting in
some home grown parsley.


















The final product! Very delicious salsa and tons of it!