Heather’s recent kitchen work

What do you do when your garden has a 10 ft. cucumber plant that turns out 1 lb. fruits daily?  You make pickles. And tonight Heather made some lentil/chickpea patties served with a peanut sauce in a pita, with a cucumber and grape tomoto salad on the side.  Quite tasty.

Our first significant harvest

I did some work in the garden this morning, mainly to tame the growing tomato forest.  One of the biggest surprises has been the vigorous growth of a single cucumber plant (the variety is ‘Japanese Climbing’).  It is taking over the middle area of the garden.  One of the shoots it has sent off is [...]

Some photos from the garden

Here’s a shot of our herbs… More photos after the jump…