What a month June was! It started off with us being inundated with strawberries. We have made some jam, froze some, made loads of smoothies – and of course ate them fresh 😋
And we finally grew some greens! The cold wet spring meant that the slugs went after most of what we sowed. I didn’t have any lettuce survive but we had 3 spinach plants and a good amount of mustard make it.
Unfortunately because we then went to the opposite extreme when it came to weather – the mustard bolted. It does not like dry weather at all. But all was not lost. We ended up pulling it and then making Saag. It was our first meal that was 70% cooked with what we grew and it tasted wonderful. 😋
By the end of June we harvested our garlic and I am busy drying them and braiding it to hang. That will probably be a separate post because I did not realize the work involved there! In it’s place we planted a pumpkin vine and a black squash vine so it has room to spread. If all goes well, we’ll have pumpkins for Halloween!
It’s now the start of a new month and we are watching the tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, first early potatoes beets and more come in. Hopefully soon we can start harvesting them too!
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