Thursday, July 31, 2008

Onions and Jam

Our Sugar Snap Peas are at the end of production so I am now roaming the garden to see what else is ready. I ended up at my Mom's on Monday for some Raspberry picking and came home with enough berries for two and 3/4 batches (darn it). Now I need to head back down for one more cup of berries. Our own raspberries haven't yet decided to yield any fruit (we just transplanted them from Mom and Dad's this year). Our blueberry bushes however have surprised us. Costco gave literature with the bushes that claimed they wouldn't produce for another 2-3 years. Eventhough we only have 10 berries, it's better than nothing.
Anyway, in my roaming of the garden I found this little onion starting to poke out of the ground. I don't remember what kind it is, but it isn't the usual round shape. Maybe I picked it out too early? It doesn't really matter. It smells like an onion and I think that I am going to stick it in the fridge until I decide to use it in something really worthy of the first onion.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The first fruits of the harvest 08

I was talking to a friend about the beautiful blooms on our sugar snap peas and she asked if we had picked any yet. I was confused because I thought that they were atleast a couple of weeks from producing anything, so I decided to take a look. They were ready to be picked. Luckily enough, my kids who are extremely picky eaters were so amazed that they could pick something edible from our yard, that we now have an entire family of sugar snap pea eaters!