The boys and I dug the first potatoes today, some of the red ones. Most were about egg-size or a little bigger. I boiled them and we ate them with butter and a little salt. Yum! We also pulled a couple of onions to have with the potatoes, but there wasn’t much there yet.
M and I have been eating a lot of really good salads lately. I’ve been collecting a combination of greens: purslane, amaranth thinnings, kale, collards, even a little lettuce. The purslane is really what makes the salads so good. It’s crunchy without being tough, and very mild flavored. We have the onions in a raised bed, and that happens to be where a lot of purslane self-seeded, so I let it grow. Being a weed, it grew very vigorously, which is fine since it’s my favorite vegetable from the garden so far this year.
The last week has been really hot, and the tomatoes, corn, and peppers are loving it. I got a little carried away with the fish emulsion on the tomatoes, and they have a lot of huge, green leaves. I think the tomatoes will come, but probably would have come sooner without quite so much fertilizer.
Ending and Beginning 