Laowai

Well my gardening season is wrapping up. I still have carrots, beets and swiss chard in the ground. Also, the tomato plants are straggly, but they keep producing. And the herbs are looking mostly good. Good ol’ sage always keeps going until Thanksgiving. Yum.

It was a good year for my garden – only the second season. My climbing green beans were not a great success  – I think I planted too many plants at the base of the trellises and then we went on vacation and the beans got overgrown. After that they were a mass of tangly vines and I could never seem to pick many that were not over ripe. I’ll try again next year. Or maybe I’ll try cucumbers on those trellises. The carrots were a happy surprise – for some reason I thought they were hard to grow – turns out they are easy peasy. 

I froze some green beans (from the bush type I planted). To save the tomatoes I like to chop them up and mix them with garlic and herbs and olive oil on a sheet pan. Then I roast them and put them in the freezer.

Only 5 more months before I can start all over – beginning with planting the peas in March. I love my garden.

This one grew in my sewing room: