Finally! The seeds arrived a couple of weeks ago from Fedco, the farmers’ cooperative in Maine. A late April snowstorm delayed their planting, but today they were tucked into the rich earth.
The season's first planting
Temperatures continue to drop all through the North Country and the crisp nights have sweetened up my carrots. I’m pulling the long, earthy roots with their lush foliage almost every day. On tonight’s menu: carrots scrubbed, halved, and quartered, then simmered until tender in a few tablespoons of butter, 1/2 teaspoon of orange zest and the juice of one orange. Yum!
Frost-sweetened carrots fresh from the garden
Even though the sun hasn’t yet appeared over the mountain or through the forest, these buttery daisies on the porch are full of sunlight. A sweet way to greet the morning…
Hm-m-m-m…the gift of hot summer days. The lavender garden is full of lavender and bees. Working carefully in a pair of worn leather gloves, I slowly reach into the early morning garden and begin to clip the amazing spikes of purple and their foliage. All around are tiny flashes of light reflecting off the wings of honeybees at work. As each plant is touched, the scent of lavender rises to envelope us. What a joyful blessing to be here…
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Lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, butternut squash, zucchini squash, bush beans, heirloom tomatoes—the kitchen garden is overflowing with an abundance of all things green and wonderful.
Last year a high wind smashed a few nearly-ripe tomatoes into the soil. The tiny tomato vine hiding behind the romaine must be one of their progeny. I hate to pull it but…
