The potager is brimming with potatoes, tomatoes, garlic, onions, beets, green beans, and carrots close to harvest in addition to plums, peaches, and blackberries. However it quickly can become desiccated because rainfall is infrequent during July and August. Hence my morning and nightly dates with the water hose because during those times the rate of evaporation is less. Thinning beets are advantageous in two ways: allows room for the remaining to become full-sized and gives abundant greens for the cook pot.
A chiffonade is an effective way to cut herbs and leafy greens by stacking them in a pile, rolling-up that pile up into a fat cigar, and then thinly slicing it.
Cold drink and food are refreshing ways to withstand hot days, but a different response works also which is surrendering wholeheartedly to the heat and melting along with it till the only reasonable response is a nap. And to aid that giving-in is a nice soup plate of minestrone containing among other ingredients, beet greens, basil, and potatoes from our garden.
Tomatoes which were planted late in the season due to unfavourable weather are beginning to redden.
Happily there were enough ripe ones to slice for topping macaroni and cheese.
In order to stay bushy, and therefore productive, spearmint is no different from other herbs which all require frequent pinching. These leaves got washed and then towel-dried. Spread evenly on a plate, they lost all moisture within two weeks. There is now a filled jar chez nous that will provide some lovely iced mint tea.
Some of the strawberries put out baby plants, from three to five on a runner, which were cut off and placed in shallow flats of potting mix. They will be planted in about a month.
The lush, silky blooms of the hydrangea have reached their peak.
Dirac the Cat loves twilight and twilight loves him, bringing out the blue in his coat.
He doesn't need warm food to go with the flow, just a good stretch thank you very much.
À la prochaine!
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| I prefer beet greens to spinach though I would never refuse the later |
A chiffonade is an effective way to cut herbs and leafy greens by stacking them in a pile, rolling-up that pile up into a fat cigar, and then thinly slicing it.
Cold drink and food are refreshing ways to withstand hot days, but a different response works also which is surrendering wholeheartedly to the heat and melting along with it till the only reasonable response is a nap. And to aid that giving-in is a nice soup plate of minestrone containing among other ingredients, beet greens, basil, and potatoes from our garden.
Tomatoes which were planted late in the season due to unfavourable weather are beginning to redden.
Happily there were enough ripe ones to slice for topping macaroni and cheese.
In order to stay bushy, and therefore productive, spearmint is no different from other herbs which all require frequent pinching. These leaves got washed and then towel-dried. Spread evenly on a plate, they lost all moisture within two weeks. There is now a filled jar chez nous that will provide some lovely iced mint tea.
Some of the strawberries put out baby plants, from three to five on a runner, which were cut off and placed in shallow flats of potting mix. They will be planted in about a month.
The lush, silky blooms of the hydrangea have reached their peak.
Dirac the Cat loves twilight and twilight loves him, bringing out the blue in his coat.
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| The wild area and dusk is a perfect pairing for him |
He doesn't need warm food to go with the flow, just a good stretch thank you very much.
À la prochaine!
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